[cairo] trouble with large image sizes

[Dan Raymond]

That's an unfortunate restriction.  I suppose to create larger images I 
would need to create multiple surfaces and stitch them together?

On 1/26/2016 2:33 AM, Petr Kobalíček wrote:
> I guess anything above 65535 (width or height) is a risk. There are 
> various places that use fixed point, this would probably overflow it.
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Dan Raymond <draymond at foxvalley.net 
> <mailto:draymond at foxvalley.net>> wrote:
>
>     I'm trying to create a large image surface using Cairo but I am
>     getting an error.  When I execute the following code it succeeds
>     (status is CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS):
>
>     uint32_t width = 40960, height = 23040;
>     cairo_surface_t *surface =
>     cairo_image_surface_create(CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24, width, height);
>     printf("status = %d\n", cairo_surface_status(surface));
>
>     But if I double the width and height it fails (status is
>     CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_SIZE):
>
>     uint32_t width = 81920, height = 46080;
>     cairo_surface_t *surface =
>     cairo_image_surface_create(CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24, width, height);
>     printf("status = %d\n", cairo_surface_status(surface));
>
>     Is there an arbitrary restriction on the size of an image surface?
>

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