[cairo] Clearing up misconceptions

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 05:56 -0500, Donn wrote:
> 
> Preparations are mostly path building commands. They also include
> clip. Others?

Stroke settings (set_line_*), font settings, ....  Includes all
cairo_set_*().


> The relationship between Pattern and Mask is unclear -- right now I
> think of them as synonyms, they are the same thing.

A mask is a pattern.  A source is a pattern too.

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