[cairo] Rendering error in cairo-1.5.10 and up

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Apr 29 07:24:33 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:44 +0200, Franz Schmid wrote:
> Franz Schmid schrieb:
> > Hi cairo developers,
> > 
> > sorry to bother you with another cairo bug. I discovered that
> > in cairo-1.5.10 and up (including 1.6.4) the cairo_set_dash function
> > causes rendering errors with dashed closed polygons.
> > 
> > Please see http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6971
> > for screenshots and comments.
> > 
> > The only workaround for that problem is not to close the polygon,
> > but that is simply not acceptable.
> > 
> > The last working version of cairo is 1.5.8
> Got now a minimal compilable sample snippet that shows the bug.
> I found out that the bug is triggered by starting the path
> outside the image surface.

Thanks for the minimal test-case! I've taken the liberty to add it to
the test suite and pushed it out
(8742429c7958bb7f87595b1c018b4da7856b2f92). This is usually enough to
provoke Carl into fixing these tricky little bugs. ;-)
-- 
Chris Wilson



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