[cairo] Path Gradients

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 22:08 -0500, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> 
> My biggest problem with making Cairo do 3D is that as currently defined 
> it is useless. Supposedly the pen and font are always transformed by 
> the current transform. This would mean that any projected path would be 
> equivalent to drawing that path using the current pen in 2D and then 
> pespective transforming the resulting surface. This is trivial to do by 
> using a seperate surface (and pretty much impossible to achieve in any 
> other way). A far more useful result is to draw the resulting path with 
> a fixed-size pen, this is also much easier to implement. This is the 
> main reason why I want to see Cairo changed so that the pen and font 
> are fixed in device space at the moment they are set, rather than being 
> modified by further transforms.

For fonts it's not a huge issue.  For pen it is.  And it's been
discussed before, and Carl and I both want to see pen locked.  The fine
details were never fleshed out though.  Anyone taking this one?

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