[cairo] [RFC] Add device_extents api

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>
>> I see your point about stroke width.  Another option is to lock the stroke
>> pen.
>>
>
> We need to either provide new API to do that, or change the existing API to
> do that, or adopt something like Jeff's device-space extents API. We need to
> reach consensus on the preferred solution, because this is causing us pain
> downstream:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465996#c46
>

This is still hurting us and we seem no closer to a resolution.

It's maddening that cairo has the device-space stroke extents and we can't
get them because no-one can decide what the correct API is.

Rob
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