[cairo] [Bug 90166] Add a way to specify units (in SVG output)

Petr Kobalíček kobalicek.petr at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 21:12:24 UTC 2017


'MM/CM' vs 'INCHES' and all others seems inconsistent to me.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Adrian Johnson <ajohnson at redneon.com>
wrote:

> On 12/10/17 21:59, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> > On 12/10/17 20:55, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> >> The API addition I originally proposed[1,2] looks like this:
> >>
> >> void cairo_svg_surface_set_document_unit (cairo_surface_t*,
> cairo_svg_unit_t)
> >>
> >> Where cairo_svg_unit_t is an enum type representing all the possible
> >> units.
> >
> > The enum in the patch is:
> >
> > typedef enum _cairo_svg_unit {
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_EM,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_EX,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PX,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_IN,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_CM,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_MM,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PT,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PC,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PERCENT,
> >     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_USER
> > } cairo_svg_unit_t;
>
> We don't have to use the SVG abbreviations in the enum. The non standard
> abbreviations can be expanded to make it clearer. I've reordered it
> slightly to put the default first followed by the more common units.
>
> typedef enum _cairo_svg_unit {
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_POINTS,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PIXELS,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_MM,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_CM,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_INCHES,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PICAS,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_FONT_EM,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_FONT_X,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_PERCENT,
>     CAIRO_SVG_UNIT_USER
> } cairo_svg_unit_t;
>
>
> >
> > This looks good to me. It just needs a getter. Are all the units in SVG
> > 1.1? If not the minimum version will need to be documented. The default
> > unit will also need to be documented.
> >
>
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