[cairo] [RFC] Add device_extents api

[Soeren Sandmann]

"Robert O'Callahan" <robert at ocallahan.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Muizelaar <jeff at infidigm.net> wrote:
> 
> > Unless I'm misunderstanding Behdad, fixing the user-space extents bug
> > just gives us saner user-space extents. It won't help with
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465996 where we need device
> > extents.
> >
> 
> Oh yeah, because even if we compute perfect user-space extents, transforming
> that rectangle to device space will introduce another bounding-box operation
> (e.g. if there's rotation).
> 
> Oh well. Back to the API wars!

If I understand that bug correct, then the damage tracking API that I
proposed in a different thread may do what you need, and in fact
possibly allow you to repaint less than the full bounding box of the
curve.


Soren