[cairo] [cairo-announce] cairo release 1.8.0 now available
Charles Doutriaux
doutriaux1 at llnl.gov
Fri Sep 26 09:34:29 PDT 2008
The issue I posted this week about postscript text being cutoff is still
in 1.8.0.
Any idea if it's going to be fixed? Again it worked fine with 1.6.4
C.
Carl Worth wrote:
> A new cairo release 1.8.0 is now available from:
>
> http:// cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.0.tar.gz
>
> which can be verified with:
>
> http:// cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.0.tar.gz.sha1
> 8a689ca47c24216f37bb8cabae21ff08a7f47899 cairo-1.8.0.tar.gz
>
> http:// cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.8.0.tar.gz.sha1.asc
> (signed by Carl Worth)
>
> Additionally, a git clone of the source tree:
>
> git clone git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo
>
> will include a signed 1.8.0 tag which points to a commit named:
> 6b3aa86b1c5b2fce3e56b43142c4ec2664a37032
>
> which can be verified with:
> git verify-tag 1.8.0
>
> and can be checked out with a command such as:
> git checkout -b build 1.8.0
>
> The cairo community is happy (and relieved) to announce the 1.8.0
> release of the cairo graphics library. This is a major update to
> cairo, with new features and enhanced functionality which maintains
> compatibility for applications written using any previous major cairo
> release, (1.6, 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0). We recommend that anybody using a
> previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.8.0.
>
> The dominant theme of this release is improvements to cairo's ability
> to handle text. The highlights include a new "user fonts" feature as
> well as a new cairo_show_text_glyphs API which allows glyphs to be
> embedded in PDF output along with their original text, (for searching,
> selection, and copy-and-paste). Another major feature is a revamp of
> cairo's build system making it much easier to build cairo on various
> platforms.
>
> See below for more details.
>
> Have fun with cairo!
>
> -Carl
>
> User fonts
> ----------
> This new API allows the user of cairo API to provide drawings for
> glyphs in a font. A common use for this is implementing fonts in
> non-standard formats, like SVG fonts and Flash fonts. This API can
> also be used by applications to provide custom glyph shapes for fonts
> while still getting access to cairo's glyph caches. See
> test/user-font.c and test/user-font-proxy.c for usage examples. This
> is based on early work by Kristian Høgsberg. Thanks Kristian!
>
> This new API consists of the following functions (and corresponding
> _get functions):
>
> cairo_user_font_face_create
>
> cairo_user_font_face_set_init_func
> cairo_user_font_face_set_render_glyph_func
> cairo_user_font_face_set_text_to_glyphs_func
> cairo_user_font_face_set_unicode_to_glyph_func
>
> An additional, new API is
>
> cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs
>
> We were previously reluctant to provide this function as
> text-to-glyphs support in cairo was limited to "toy" font
> functionality, not really interesting for real-world text
> processing. However, with user fonts landing, this API is needed to
> expose full access to how user fonts convert text to glyphs. This is
> expected to be used by text toolkits like Pango, as well as "proxy"
> user-font implementations.
>
> cairo_show_text_glyphs
> ----------------------
> This new API allows the caller of cairo to provide text data
> corresponding to glyphs being drawn. The PDF backend implements this
> new API so that complex text can be copied out of cairo's PDF output
> correctly and reliably, (assuming the user of cairo calls
> cairo_show_text_glyphs). The cairo_show_text_glyphs API is definitely
> the most daunting API to debut in cairo. It is anticipated that pango
> (and similar high-level text libraries) will be the primary users of
> this API. In fact, pango 1.22 already uses cairo_show_text_glyphs.
> Behdad was the architect and implementor of this effort. Thanks,
> Behdad!
>
> The cairo_show_text_glyphs API includes the following new functions:
>
> cairo_show_text_glyphs
>
> cairo_glyph_allocate
> cairo_glyph_free
>
> cairo_text_cluster_allocate
> cairo_text_cluster_free
>
> cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs
>
> Build system revamp
> -------------------
> The primary goal of the revamp is to make the build system less
> fragile, (particularly for non-Linux platforms). For example, now
> people building on win32 will no longer need to maintain a
> platform-specific list of files to be built. See the new README.win32
> for details. Also, the .so file will now be installed with a different
> naming scheme, (for example, 1.7.6 will install with a .10800
> suffix). Many thanks to Behdad and his small army of helpers!
>
> Assorted API additions
> ----------------------
> For API completeness, several missing "getter" functions were added:
>
> cairo_scaled_font_get_scale_matrix
>
> cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution
>
> cairo_toy_font_face_create
> cairo_toy_font_face_get_family
> cairo_toy_font_face_get_slant
> cairo_toy_font_face_get_weight
>
> The new cairo_toy_font_face functions provide access to functionality
> and settings provided by cairo_select_font_face(). Thanks Behdad!
>
> cairo-ps/cairo-pdf: More efficient output
> -----------------------------------------
> Adrian Johnson has been busy fixing all kinds of bugs in PS and PDF
> backends, as well making them generate much more compact output by
> avoiding things like re-emitting the color or linestyle on every
> drawing operation. Thanks Adrian!
>
> cairo-xlib: dithering
> ---------------------
> Dithering: Cairo now does simple dithering when rendering to legacy X
> servers. This is most visible with 8-bit visuals. Thanks Behdad!
>
> cairo-xlib: Avoid rendering glyphs out of surface bounds
> --------------------------------------------------------
> This seemingly harmless optimization exposed a bug in OpenOffice.org 3
> versions where OO.o was passing bogus surface extents to cairo,
> resulting in no text rendered in OO.o. Please contact your
> distribution's OO.o maintainers if you see this bug and point them to
> the following URL:
>
> https:// bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16209
>
> cairo-xlib: Improved performance with X server without Render
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Cairo now performs better on remote X servers that lack the Render
> extension by being smarter about using X core protocol facilities
> instead of falling back to doing all rendering on the client side.
>
> cairo-ft: respecting FC_FT_FACE
> -------------------------------
> Previously it was impossible to instruct cairo to do emboldening on a
> font face object created from an FT_Face. Cairo now respects and uses
> the FC_FT_FACE fontconfig pattern element, so emboldening can be
> achieved by using cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_pattern() and a
> carefully crafted pattern using FC_FT_FACE and FC_EMBOLDEN. Thanks
> Behdad!
>
> cairo-directfb: backend improvements
> ------------------------------------
> The directfb backend, though still unsupported, has seen a good deal
> of improvements. Thanks Vlad!
>
> Bug fixing and optimizations
> ----------------------------
> xlib: Faster bookkeeping (Karl Tomlinson)
> https:// bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453199#c5
>
> PS: Fix gradients with non-constant alpha (Chris Wilson)
>
> Fix deadlock in user-font code (Richard Hughes and Behdad Esfahbod)
> http:// bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16819
>
> Countless other bugs have been fixed and optimizations made, many of
> them thanks to Chris Wilson. Thanks Chris and others!
>
> Note also that the code that had been in cairo 1.7.x calling into
> freetype's optional lcd_filter function was removed from cairo before
> the 1.8.0 release. We do expect this code to come back in some form in
> the future.
>
>
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