[cairo] drawing with a mask

[Bill Spitzak]

M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:

> I think the default scaling settings might also explain the gradient 
> you mentioned seeing if using an entirely opaque mask. In this case 
> the pixels outside the mask are treated as transparent, so when 
> scaling up they "leak" into the mask area covered by the top-left 
> pixel due to filtering.  The most way to fix all this is to reset the 
> current transformation matrix back to the identity before calling 
> cairo_mask_surface() or use cairo_push_group/pop_group().

Another example where the expected behavior is EXTEND_PAD. I really 
think the default in Cairo will have to be changed.

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