[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

Dimitrie O. Paun dpaun at rogers.com
Wed Jan 12 14:10:09 PST 2005


On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:09:02PM -0500, Carl Worth wrote:
> We've had gamma-correct compositing on the Render TODO list for
> sometime now. So it's something we do want to do.

Cool. As long as it's accounted for (and part of the model),
it's all right. In that case we can just use Cairo as if it
supported it, and depend on it to implement it eventually.

> No, and it shouldn't be too hard even, (just a matter of selecting an
> A1 buffer internally when drawing shapes to the mask). People wanting
> pixel-perfect emulation have asked for this in cairo, and I said I
> would try implementing it. It just hasn't bubbled up as a
> high-priority task for me yet.

Excellent. I think being able to avoid AA output would be useful
in general, not just for Wine/Mono.

-- 
Dimi.



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