[cairo] Is Cairo able to fit my needs?

[Bill Spitzak]

Carl Worth wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:01:32 +0200, "Innova-Studios - Juergen Ladstaetter" wrote:
>> Ad 2) doesn’t that function set the whole graphic to that color?
> 
> No. cairo_fill just fills the current path, (just like the equivalent
> operation in PostScript).
> 
>> Ad 3) normally when painting two things over each other, a logical function
>> "COPY" is used. For displaying postscript there are also other functions
>> needed.
>> A small list of functions:
>> wxAND                 src AND dst
>> wxAND_INVERT          (NOT src) AND dst
>> wxAND_REVERSE         src AND (NOT dst)
> ...
> 
> OK, if you want bitwise logical operators then you won't find them in
> cairo. Many cairo output targets, (such as PostScript!), don't have
> any notion of "bits" so such operations are not well-defined at all.
> 
> Cairo does have various operators, but they are the Porter/Duff
> compositing operators, not bitwise arithmetic operators.
> 
> I hope that helps.

I'm not sure he was talking about bitwise operators. Actually I think he 
is asking for the Porter/Duff operations.

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