[cairo] Path manipulation functions

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:50 +0200, Nicola Fontana wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just some political question.
> 
> Is there any plan to implement higher level functions to deal
> with paths, such as creating an offset path at a specific
> distance from the original one or calculating the intersections
> between two paths?

No.

> If not, someone knows of a specific project fulfilling these
> needs?

No modern ones that I know of.  I'd love to see such a project built
aside/on-top of cairo.

Projects like Inkscape have all the needed code.  Someone should sit
down and make a decent library out of it.

> Thanks in advance
-- 
behdad
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