[cairo] Re: Notes on cairo/win32

[Carl Worth]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:39:16 +0000, "J. Ali Harlow" wrote:
> Ah. I had understood that you were pushing for GDI+ because it gives us  
> "anti-aliased paths and alpha-composited primitives". If GDI will do  
> what we need then the hardware acceleration, ease of use and  
> familiarity would all seem to be benefits.

If the "anti-aliased paths and alpha-composited primitives" were a
good fit for cairo and gave good performance then that might make
sense. But if they're just software on top of GDI, then we're better
off using our own software on top of GDI. We've already got all those
pieces in cairo anyway.

-Carl
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