[cairo] Drawing diagonal lines with antialiasing off

[Øyvind Kolås]

On 9/27/05, Jordi Mas <jordi at ximian.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> When turning off the antialiasing (CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_NONE) and drawing a
> vertical line, it gets rendered as two pixel width instead of one.
> Is there any way using a cairo function to override this behaviour?
>
> I'm attaching a very simple case to reproduce the issue and the
> generated image.

Your issue is very related to the first entry in the FAQ[1]. Changing
your code to:

  ...
  cairo_move_to (cr, 5.0, 5.5);
  cairo_move_to (cr, 10.0, 10.5);
  ...

Will render the image you expect.

/Øyvind K.

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1 - http://cairographics.org/FAQ


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