[cairo] postscript backend cut my text

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Charles Doutriaux wrote:
> I sent a long email with the C code and sample postscript by it awaits
> moderator... So in case I'm sending a bz2 version of the files.
> test.ps: sample of the snippet code compiled against 1.6.4
> test_cairo.1.7.6.c # full C code dumped from my code
> test.1.6.4.ps # ouptut form previous C code against 1.6.4
> test.1.7.6.ps # output when linked against 1.7.6
> Notice how 1.6.4 ps have a lot more "XXXXXX"

I see exactly four X's in both outputs you sent.  Mind sending an image output
too?

behdad

> Hope this helps,
> 
> C.
> 
> 
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>>  
>>> Doh!!!
>>> I'm sorry I forgot I rebuild with 1.6.4 last night.....
>>>
>>> Ok the snipet I sent yesterday might have missed a cairo_save (i
>>> probably forgot a copy/paste) but it is definately still missing a
>>> bunch of XXXX
>>> when linking against 1.76.  and it works fine against 1.6.4 so i'll
>>> be suing this for now
>>>     
>>
>> Can you send us before/after PS files?  Also, what happens if you
>> generate PDF
>> or SVG instead?  What about image?  Three of us tried the code you
>> sent and
>> couldn't reproduce the problem.
>>
>> behdad
>>
>>
>>  
>>> hope this helps, and again sorry for the false hapy ending :(
>>>
>>> For now i'm going to revert 1.6.4 for our stuff
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> C.
>>>
>>>
>>> Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> Yes! that was it, adding a cairo_save(cr) right after creating the
>>>> surface fixed it!
>>>>
>>>> Hum.. I'm not sure I understand why I need to do a save before i do
>>>> anything else (since there's nothing on the page yet) but hey it works!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>>
>>>> C.
>>>>
>>>> PS: Thanks also for the pointer to cairo_trace
>>>>
>>>> C.
>>>>
>>>> Chris Wilson wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:38 -0700, Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>>>>>              
>>>>>> I'm running inot a weird feature under cairo 1.7.6 and 1.7.2 
>>>>>> (don't think it was in 1.6.4)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Considering the attached piece of code, this used to work in
>>>>>> previous version
>>>>>>                     
>>>>> Behdad spotted that the snippet was missing an initial cairo_save().
>>>>> After adding that, the output looks like the axes for a graph, and
>>>>> importantly look the same for the image and PS backends, using both
>>>>> cairo-1.6 and master. This is the first hint of a regression with
>>>>> 1.7 so
>>>>> its important for us that we are able to resolve it before 1.8 (which
>>>>> Behdad keeps insisting is tomorrow ;-) If you please can verify the
>>>>> test
>>>>> case and also grab a couple of screenshots to serve as a reference.
>>>>>
>>>>> <plug>cairo-trace is a very useful tool for capture/replay of bugs:
>>>>> http://   cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/cairo-trace/</plug>
>>>>>               
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