[cairo] PDF Text Extraction: Future

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Oct 24, 2007 2:33 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> wrote:

> To point out something that may be entirely obvious ... the order
> invariance of
> glyphs in cairo isn't coincidental, it's part of the model. That is, if
> you
> make a single show_glyphs() call with overlapping glyphs and alpha of 0.5,
> you should *expect* that the resulting shape has an alpha of 0.5 in the
> overlapped regions.
>

That's not obvious, no.

So, up until new API gets added to cairo and Firefox starts using it, it's
> safe and recommended to order glyphs in visual order.
>

OK. Better document that.

Rob
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