[cairo] Getting started

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:

> Ah, sorry, I misunderstood -- when you mentioned that you were gettig
> two-pixel-wide blurred lines I assumed you were drawing individual
> lines.  I think you want to translate by +0.5,+0.5 instead of
> -0.5,-0.5, though I don't think that would explain the slowdown (just
> maybe an off-by-one in your rendered output).  Other than that, I'm
> not really sure what to suggest, other than maybe stepping through
> cairo_stroke() and seeing where you deviate from the optimized paths
> (usually indicated in comments).

Thanks.  I managed to get an acceptable performance by doing:

  - Do not translate.

  - For drawing lines, set width to 1 and add +0.5,+0.5 to all
points.

  - When drawing filled stroked rectangles, do not use the same
path for both fill and stroke.  Use integer coordinates for the
fill, and half-off coordinates for the stroke.  This is the only
way to avoid alpha-blending.

I wish there was a way to have a fill+stroke to use the same path
and still be fast, but I that's only an issue with axis-aligned
rectangles.

I'll be adding these to the FAQ tomorrow.


>       - Vlad

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