[cairo] invalid value (typically too big) for the size of the input (surface, pattern, etc.)

[Jonathan Morton]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:02 +0200, M Joonas Pihlaja wrote:
> > I thought it was 2^24 ? Was this reduced?
> 
> The integer part of the fixed point type used to represent paths is 24
> bits wide, so the limit there is about +-8M.  The 32767 limit on the
> width/height dimensions of an image surface is new in 1.10.  In
> previous versions we'd just render bad things (and sometimes still do,
> but not so much.)  Other backends can have larger or (typically)
> smaller limits on width/height due to different hardware limitatons
> for example.

Also, 32767x32767 is about a billion pixels.  You'll have trouble
allocating that much RAM on a 32-bit machine.

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From: Jonathan Morton
      jonathan.morton at movial.com