[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[MenTaLguY]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> >  - Not-antialiased primitives. Hard to implement on top of Cairo,
> >    but in most cases, people will be happy with everything smoothed.
> >    The tricky bit is getting rectangles and horizontal/vertical
> >    lines to be sharp. In GDI+, people may turn off antialiasing
> >    then be careless with where they draw primitives and expect them
> >    to be sharp.
>
> The problem is that apps do all sort of strange things, and we
> almost have to be pixel perfect. Any fundamental reason why
> we can't programmatically turn off antialiasing in Cairo?

As an aside, he ability to turn off antialiasing is also desired in
Inkscape for producing high-resolution output.  Users have also requested
it for an interactive "fast preview" modes.

-mental