[cairo] Recording Surfaces (was Re: virtual surfaces and composition)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:47:01 +0000, Henry (Yu) Song wrote:

> Does cairo recording surface work for you?  Unfortunately cairo
> recording surface does not have "TRUE" playback though.

I did one brief experiment with recording surfaces: I drew a simple
circle shape, and then constructed a pattern from that surface to draw
into another surface.

However, when I scaled up the pattern, it looked blurred. Which
surprised me, because I thought it would be resolution-independent.