[cairo] Difference in Cairo and Qt4 adjacent polygon rendering
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at thefoundry.co.uk
Fri May 1 11:44:23 PDT 2009
If you really want to fix this *and* reduce the output size, see if you
can make each shape include any enclosed shape that has not been drawn
yet. IE:
+----------+
| +---+ |
| A | B | |
| +---+ |
| |
+----------+
Currently you are drawing the donut-shaped piece 'A' and then the square
called 'B'. If instead you drew the filled square of both A+B, then drew
B, you would have no seams, and the B square path would only be sent
once instead of twice. This would probably also make the Qt output
smaller as well.
This looks like it would work for your data, though I can imagine it is
not going to be easy to change the software. I think a solution like
this would solve a lot of problems people are having with drawing such
images using Cairo, though it gets harder/impossible if the shapes share
common edges or the "overlap" goes in a loop.
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