[cairo] push_group vector question

Tuom Larsen tuom.larsen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 14:52:04 PST 2007


On Dec 13, 2007 11:40 PM, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, tis I.


hi,


>
>  I feel more than a little sheepish having so many replies and *still* not
>
> getting some of the basics. I will press on.
>
> I savvy that a Pattern is a source of data for Cairo. I also see that
> vector
> data remains vector and raster remains raster.
>  Now, when one draws stuff in Cairo, let's say a tree, within a push/pop
> group -- what becomes of that data?
>  My experience has been that it becomes a raster of what was drawn
> (clipped to
> the edges of the window). But it started life as what I would think of as
> a "vector" -- lines between points -- so wouldn't it make sense to expect
> a
> vector back again?


try maybe to look here:
http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.5.2/
under "Major PDF/PostScript improvements"


>  What if one wanted to paint it at a larger scale or output it to an SVG?
>
> Perhaps there's a setting somewhere I have not seen.
>
> Just wondering aloud for clarity.
>
> \d
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