[cairo] Serious concerns about cairo

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 04:10 -0400, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:
> > The biggest problem I have with Cairo is the fact that the pen and
> font 
> > is changed by the current transform
> 
> I don't see that as much of a problem. This is exactly what I need
> when I want to, say, transform an SVG and let the rendering be done by
> a different library (librsvg, say). I'd expect that to be a common
> use case. 

That will keep working.  We are talking about these sequences:

  cairo_set_pen_size
  cairo_scale
  cairo_stroke

The sequence:

  cairo_scale
  cairo_set_pen_size
  cairo_stroke

is not affected by the proposed change.

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