[cairo] Aliased corner with rounded rectangle

Lorenzo gatti88 at libero.it
Wed Aug 8 15:16:13 UTC 2018


Hi,

i have a problem with the creation of a rounded rectangle with cairo.

Environment info:

cairo version: 1.14.8-1

OS: linux


A linux client creates a rounded rectangle with the following code:

         let x = 0.0
         let y = 0.0
         let w = Double(size.w)
         let h = Double(size.h)
         let r = 20.0

         logger.verbose("rounded rectangle 
x=\(x),y=\(y),w=\(w),h=\(h),r=\(r)")

         cairo_move_to(context, x, y + r)
         cairo_arc(context, x + r, y + r, r, Double.pi, -Double.pi / 2.0)
         cairo_line_to(context, x + w - r, y)
         cairo_arc(context, x + w - r, y + r, r, -Double.pi / 2.0, 0.0)
         cairo_line_to(context, x + w, y + h - r)
         cairo_arc(context, x + w - r, y + h - r, r, 0.0, Double.pi / 2.0)
         cairo_line_to(context, x + r, y + h)
         cairo_arc(context, x + r, y + h - r, r, Double.pi / 2.0, Double.pi)
         cairo_close_path(context)


         cairo_set_source_rgba(context, cl.red, cl.green, cl.blue, 
cl.alpha);
         cairo_fill(context)


After the surface fill  i have 2 different operations to be performed:

     - write the png on the disk using 
"cairo_surface_write_to_png(surface, "testcairo.png")"

     - display the png with opengl es 3.0 as a texture (done by copy the 
surface raw bytes with cairo_image_surface_get_data(surface)

       in a shared memory used by the opengl server program)


Save the image on disk is ok, the image is good.

Display the image as a texture with opengl results in an ugly image: 
corners have some black pixels around them.

Why this difference?


I have done some checks:

- data obtained with cairo_image_surface_get_data are the same that the 
graphics server loads from the shared memory (checked PixelxPixel) so 
the data transfer don't is the problem (checked also any signed/unsigned 
byte conversion)

- loading the disk png as a texture instead of loading data from the 
shared memory results in a good image with no problems.


My opinion is that the cairo_surface_write_to_png performs an 
antialiasing algorithm and accessing raw data bypass it taking the 
original image.


Is my opinion correct? If yes, any advice to solve the problem?


Regards,

Lorenzo.







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