[cairo] Cairo and ISO C++
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 13:07:15 PST 2014
One thing that was proposed changing is whether changing the CTM effects
already-set line width and fonts. It does now to match PostScript.
General opinion is that this is a mistake. Cairo is inconsistent as this
is not true for paths and for the transform applied to source images,
and most font backends are broken such that you cannot correctly draw
text unless the CTM is the same as the one the font was in.
I suspect changing this would break no programs, as everybody always
sets the line width after setting the CTM, simply to avoid this
apparenlty broken behavior. Although ancient, this has some precedence
in PostScript, as the NeWS interpreter did this for awhile and was not
found to break any PostScript displays.
It may be nice to address this as part of the C++ standard.
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