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Release 1.14.2 (2014-03-09 Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>)
====================================================================
This release provides collected bug fixes, along with one feature
enhancement for the xcb backend, and a small performance improvement for
fonts.
The running theme of the bug fixes is platform-specific issues, both
build and run-time. Platforms with fixes include Sparc, AIX, Windows
(mingw), and Windows (MSVC8). Memory leaks, valgrind issues, and PDF
issues round out our list.
It's come to light that changes in cairo 1.14 resulted in breakage on
MacOS X 10.4. We've not yet determined whether to fix up the support,
or excise the 10.4-specific code and support only OS X 10.5 or newer.
Meantime, we'll only advertise cairo as working on OS X 10.5.
Features
--------
* Improve xcb's handling of per-screen subpixel ordering. If no
Xft.rgba property is specified, default to the screen's subpixel
order.
API Changes
-----------
None
Dependency Changes
------------------
None
Performance Optimizations
-------------------------
* Improve performance of cpu_to_be32 and be32_to_cpu, making truetype
subsetting of large fonts run about 15% faster.
Bug Fixes
---------
* Fix unaligned access on sparc with the compact font format (CFF).
Unlike truetype, all data in CFF is not aligned.
(Debian bug #712836)
* Fix unaligned access on sparc with tor-scan-converter's memory pool.
* Fix crash when loading a PDF with a transformed image.
(fdo bug #85151)
* Fix regression on mingw for bigendian test due to removal of file
extension for executables.
(fdo bug #85120)
* Fix handling of backslash in PDF interpreter
(fdo bug #85662)
* Fix crash in xlib and xcb renderers when swapping a 0-sized glyph
* Fix bug with RTL text in PDF operators
(fdo bug #86461)
* Fix compilation 'cairo-path-stroke-traps.c' with MSVC8
(fdo bug #84908)
* Fix crash in _fill_xrgb32_lerp_opaque_spans when a span length is
negative.
* Fix valgrind error by releasing pattern created by
cairo_pattern_create_rgb().
* Fix valgrind errors when running cairo-test-suite.
* Fix memory leak in recording surface replays
(fdo bug #87898)
* Fix destruction of fonts in api-special-cases test.
(fdo bug #87567)
* Fix duplicated surface push on similar-image, preventing trivial GTK3
program traces from being replayable, with an error message about
invalid values for the size of the input.
(fdo bug #73580)
* Fix crash when win32 surface's image size does not cover the entire
surface.
(fdo bug #53121)
* Fix crash due to obsolete CGFontGetGlyphPath call
(fdo bug #84324)
* Fix several build issues on AIX
(fdo bugs #89338, #89340, #89356, #89354)
* Fix various documentation warnings and errors
Release 1.14.0 (2014-10-13 Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>)
====================================================================
Hard to believe it's been over a year since our last release, but it's
not for lack of activity. This release includes contributions of a wide
assortment of bug fixes, build system improvements, warnings cleanups,
codebase refactoring, test suite repairs, and static analysis work.
This release is lighter on features (compared with 1.12.10) but includes
a highly demanded rehaul of our image downscaling functionality, which
solves a serious problem experienced by Inkscape users when shrinking
embedded bitmaps in SVG files. The new scaling algorithms are used by
the image backend and by other backends as needed for fallbacks.
Features
--------
Filtering improvements for the image backend, in particular
down-scaling of images produces filtered images that depend on all the
pixels of the source. When using the image backend you get the
following settings:
CAIRO_FILTER_GOOD: uses a box filter for scales less than .75 in
either direction. For scales larger than this, the same filter as
CAIRO_FILTER_BILINEAR is used.
CAIRO_FILTER_BEST: uses a Catmull-Rom filter always. When upscaling
more than 2x this will produce anti-aliased square pixels, similar
to OS/X.
CAIRO_FILTER_GAUSSIAN: uses PIXMAN_FILTER_BEST, which in current
pixman is the same as BILINEAR. (This is subject to change in the
future).
xlib and xcb also use the image fallback for GOOD/BEST filters, but
note that other backends do not implement these filtering fixes yet,
however other actions may cause them to use an image fallback which
will cause these filters to be used.
Improve handling of device transformation and scaling, allowing Cairo
to now support scaling at a device level, permitting easier, more
transparent HiDPI support.
Support JBIG2 mime data in PDF. This allows embedding of more
compressed JPEG formats within PDF, rather than including the full
uncompressed image. Also, reduce the number of transparency groups
used by PDF to keep the file size small and viewing/printing of the
PDF fast.
Expand the embedding section to include stencil mask support.
Reorder font declarations to be in natural order.
Update the Skia backend to build against current Skia (as of June
2014).
Drop Link-Time Optimization (LTO) support from build system. This
seems to have caused much trouble for unclear benefit, and most
distros are reverting or disabling it anyway.
Optimize VBO size on GL to 1M and to 16k for EGL. This improves
(theoretical) performance for desktop GLX use cases while avoiding
hitting VBO memory size limitations on embedded devices.
API Changes
-----------
cairo_surface_set_device_scale, cairo_surface_get_device_scale:
Sets a scale that is multiplied to the device coordinates
determined by the CTM when drawing to @surface. One common use for
this is to render to very high resolution display devices at a scale
factor, so that code that assumes 1 pixel will be a certain size
will still work.
cairo_egl_device_get_display, cairo_egl_device_get_context:
Support get/set of EGLContext and EGLDisplay for egl-based cairo
devices, similar to GLX.
Dependency Changes
------------------
Cairo now requires glib 2.14 for its gobject helper functions,
and pixman 0.30 for downscaling.
Bug fixes
---------
Don't embed CMYK Jpeg images in svg.
Fix tests to place output in proper location.
Fix determination of alpha for all surfaces when recording.
Extend oversize check to cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture, so an
error surface is returned if the texture is too large to render to.
Fix embedding of mime data in PDF and PS files.
Remove useless error handling in *_reply() functions in XCB.
Fix a double-free exposed by multithreaded apps creating and
destroying the same font concurrently.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69470
Fix corrupt stacks produced by bugs in operand emission for trace.
Fix out of bounds array access in format cache for xlib
Don't rename glyphs used by seac operator. This can cause certain
combined characters to use their decorations (e.g. umlauts on ö) to be
lost during printing of PDFs using evince.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70364
Fix crash on calling cairo_create with a finished surface
Fix SSIZE_T definition problem when making with MSYS on Windows7
Fix one off issue in gl context cleanup
Fix usage of CAIRO_STACK_ARRAY_LENGTH
Fix rectangle stroke with non rectilinear pen
Fix imagemask with pattern source failure on some printers. This bug
could cause files converted using pdftops to fail for example on Ricoh
printers, or opening in Adobe Distiller on Windows.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69485
Fix whitespace in font names
Fix page size in generated PDFs. When printing using pdftocairo on
larger page sizes, such as 11x17, the image would be cropped to letter
size.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73452
Fix path-currentpoint test by preserving current-point in
copy_path()/append_path() sequence
Fix generation of HTML in code docs for
cairo-format-stride-for-width. Raw HTML code was being passed
to the browser, instead of displaying normally.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63257
Fix spelling of "tessellator" throughout code. We're using the
American rather than British spelling of this word.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50411
Fix crash in pixman_image_composite32
Fix crash when trying to modify a (const) all-clipped cairo_clip_t
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75819
Add check_composite method to all compositors, to fix crashes in the
test suite.
Fix crash in Firefox when scrolling on certain pages.
Fix memory leaks found by static analysis.
Fix build of any2ppm if fork is not available.
Fix broken build for Qt backend, due to missing libstdc++.
Fix typo in two cairo_uint128 functions. Fixes potential build issues
on systems without a uint128 type.
Fix build when --enable-pdf=no
Fix cache_frozen assertions for Win32 print.
Correctly check for xcb image surface for inplace upload
Fix webkit-based web browser crashes due to empty boxes by skipping
over them when tesselating.
Make pixman, libpng, and zlib paths commandline configurable for win32
builds.
Fix image scale on Win32 when GDI scale is not identity.
Fix float endian configure test when using clang -O4
Fix compilation with Android bionic libc
Don't try to build util/sphinx on Windows
Fix loss of precision when emitting joins. This was caused by
discrepancies in line gradients when passing trapezoids around.
Fix loss of precision and associated rendering issues in
cairo-tor-scan-converter from projection onto sample grid.
Fix pixman oversampling of neighbouring edges within a cell by
eliminating self-intersections for the pixman traps compositor.
Fix multi-line string splitting in PDFs
Various cleanups and fixes to warnings, documentation, tests, and
build system. Improve error handling and return value checks.
Cleanup XFAIL tests and reference images. Cover recently added
functionality.
Release 1.12.16 (2013-08-21 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
Thanks to everybody who reported a bug and helped us develop a fix,
we have amassed quite a few bug fixes. There are still more outstanding
bugs that seek attention and a little bit of TLC, but this release has
been delayed long enough...
Bug fixes
---------
Set the correct orientation for simple boxes with a negative scale
factor.
Fix the creation of the shading dictionary in PDF.
Fix a crash in PDF when incorporating an image with CAIRO_EXTEND_PAD.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61451
Avoid upscaling bitmap fonts if possible.
Fix an assertion failure within the mempool allocator for shared memory.
Fix allocation size for CFF subsets.
Export cairo_matrix_t for GObject bindings.
Fix a double free in the Quartz backend.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62885
Fix origin of GDI StretchBlits for the Windows backend
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61876
Fix error propagation for requests to create a similar surface with
negative size.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63196
Fix complex clipping of trapezoids with regions
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697357
Stop leaking the image data when loading PNGs
Fix unbounded operations with a clip mask through the span compositor
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61592
Add missing checks before rendering to a finished surface - so we return
an error rather than hit an assert.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68014
Prevent an assertion failure when creating similar GL surfaces larger
than supported by hardware.
Prevent a double free of a similar image under Windows.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63787
Release 1.12.14 (2013-02-10 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
In the last week we had a few more bugs reported and promptly resolved.
As these are a combination of regressions and stability issues, it is
time for a prompt update and release. Many thanks to everyone for
testing and reporting issues, and helping to make Cairo better.
Bug fixes
---------
Prevent user callbacks accessing user-data during destroy to prevent
use-after-free bugs.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722975
Use standard names for glyphs in subset fonts (PDF).
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60248
Fix detection of Win98. The logic for detecting Win98 (and its broken
AlphaBlend()) was inverted, disabling AlphaBlend() for everyone.
Prevent numeric overflow from extrapolating polygon edges to the clip
boundary and causing severe render artifacts.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60489
Fix computation of glyph string coordinates when breaking up runs
for xlib.
Fix an assertion in the win32 backend for failing to clear its
similar-images.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60519
Release 1.12.12 (2013-01-31 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
The goal of this release is to fix the synchronisation problems that
were exhibited in the SHM transport for cairo-xlib. This cropped up
any place that tried to rapidly push fresh pixel data to the X server
through an ordinary image surface, such as gimp-2.9 and evince.
Bug fixes
---------
Avoid replacing the entire image when uploading subimages
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59635
Force synchronisation for scratch SHM image buffers, so that we do
not overwrite data as it is being read by X.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59635 (also)
Fix typos in detecting multisampling for the GL (MSAA) backend.
Fix a memory leak in the GL (MSAA) backend.
Fix a reference counting bug when mapping a GL surface to an image.
Release 1.12.10 (2013-01-16 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
A heap of bug fixes everywhere, and the gradual completion of the MSAA
backend for cairo-gl. Perhaps the most noteworthy set of the bugfixes
was the crusage lead by Behdad Eshfabod to make font handling by
pango/cairo/fontconfig fully threadsafe. This testing revealed a couple
of races that needed fixing in Cairo's scaled-font and glyph cache.
Bug fixes
---------
Append coincident elements to the recording's surface bbtree so that
the list is not corrupted and the overlapping elements lost.
Fix cairo-trace to correctly record map-to-image/unmap-image and then
replay them.
Ignore MappingNotifies when running the XCB testsuite as they are sent
to all clients when the keyboard changes. The testsuite would detect
the unexpected event and complain.
Handle very large images in the XCB backend.
Fix a memory leak in the xlib/shm layer, and prevent use of the SHM
surfaces after the display is closed.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58253
Handle resizing of bitmap fonts, in preparation for a fix to
fontconfig to correctly pass on the user request for scaling.
Always include subroutine 4 (hint replacement idion) when subsetting
type 1 fonts in order to prevent a crash in cgpdftops on Mac OS/X
Fix a couple of typos in the cairo-gobject.h header files for
introspection.
Prevent a mutex deadlock when freeing a scaled-glyph containing a
recording-surface that itself references another scaled-glyph.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54950
Make scaled-font cache actually thread-safe and prevent
use-after-frees.
Restore support for older versions of XRender. A couple of typos and a
few forgotten chunks prevented the xlib compositor from running
correctly with XRender < 0.10. Note that there are still a few
regressions remaining.
Release 1.12.8 (2012-11-24 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
Another couple of weeks and a few more bugs have been found and fixed,
it is time to push the next point release. Many thanks to everyone who
reported their issues and helped us track down the bugs and helped
testing the fixes.
Bug fixes
---------
Expand the sanity checking for broken combinations of XSendEvent and
ShmCompletionEvent.
Notice that "The X.Org Foundation" sometimes also identifies itself
as "The Xorg Foundation".
Handle various ages of libXext and its Shm headers.
Fix the invalid clipping of the source drawable when using SHM
transport to upload images.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56547
Handle all Type1 postscript operators for better font compatibility.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56265
Fix a couple of memory leaks in Type1 font subsetting
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56566
Tighten the evaluation of the start/stop pen vertices, and catch a few
instances where we would use a fan instead of a bevel.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56432
Fix assumption that geometric clipping always succeeds with the
span-compositor.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56574
Fix call to spline intersection when evaluating whether a stoke is
visible.
Remember to copy inferior sources when using SHM to readback the
surface for use as a source.
Release 1.12.6 (2012-10-22 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
Thanks to everyone who download cairo-1.12.4 and gave us their feedback.
It truly was invaluable and has helped us to fix many portability issues
that crept in with some of the new features. This release aims to fix
those stability issues and run on a wider range of systems.
Bug fixes
---------
Fix the recording surface to actually snapshot the source and so fix
PDF drawing.
Calling XSendEvent with an XShmCompletionEvent is incompatabile with
older Xorg servers.
Reorder CloseDisplay chain so that XShm is not reinstantiated after
shutdown, causing a potential crash if the Display was immediately
recreated using the same memory address.
Make sure that the Xserver has attached to the SHM segment before
deleting it from the global namespace on systems that do not support
deferred deletion.
Type1 subsetting support for PDF (and PS) was once again improved to
work with a larger number of PDF readers.
GLESv2 build fixes and improved support for embedded GPUs.
Tweak the invisible pen detection for applications that are currently
using too large values for geometric tolerance.
A build fix for older freetype libraries.
Release 1.12.4 (2012-10-05 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
More bugs, and more importantly, more fixes. On the cairo-gl side, we
have refinements to the MSAA compositor which enables hardware
acceleration of comparatively low-quality antialiasing - which is useful
in animations and on very high density screens. For cairo-xlib, we have
finally enabled SHM transport for image transfers to and from the X
server. A long standing required feature, SHM transport offers a notable
reduction in rendering latency by reducing the number of copies
required to upload image data - given hardware and driver support,
cairo-xlib can now perform zero copy uploads onto the GPU. And as usual
Adrian Johnson has been very busy fixing many different corner cases in
cairo-pdf, impoving opacity groups and font subsetting. Last, but not
least, for cairo-image Søren Sandmann Pedersen added support for
rendering glyphs to pixman and using that from within cairo. The new
glyph rendering facility reduces the overhead for setting up the
compositing operation, improving glyph thoughput for the image backend
by a factor of about 4. And before he did so, he also fixed up a few
bugs in the existing glyph rendering code. So many thanks to Andrea
Canciani, Adrian Johnson, Chuanbo Weng, Dongyeon Kim, Henry Song, Martin
Robinson, Søren Sandmann Pedersen and Uli Schlachter for their
contributions, finding and fixing bugs.
Bug fixes
---------
Interior boxes were being dropped when amalgamating regions during
tesselation.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446
Allow building without gtk-doc installed
Invalid edge generation whilst reducing complex polygons.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50852
Stroking around tight cusps
Use locale correct formats for reading font subsetting and valid
buffers.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51443
Ensure that the type1 subset includes all the glyph encodings
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53040
Upload the whole source for a repeating pattern.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51910
Fix damage tracking to handle continuation chunks corectly and so
prevent crashes on win32.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53384
Avoid emitting miter joins for degenerate line segments
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407107
Convert the relative path semgents into the backend coordinates
and then back again to user coordinates (cairo_copy_path,
cairo_append_path)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54732
Fix extents computations for a degenerate path consisting only of a
move-to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54549
Prevent crashing on a degenerate project edge after polygon
intersection
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54822
Release 1.12.2 (2012-04-29 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
After such a long gestation period for the release of Cairo 1.12, we
inevitably accumulated a few bugs that were flushed out by broadening the
test base. Thanks to everybody who tried the release, apologies to any one
unfortunate enough to encounter a bug and many thanks for reporting it. As
a result Adrian Johnson, Alexandros Frantzis, Andrea Canciani, Kalev
Lember, Maarten Bosman, Marcus Meissner, Nis Martensen and Uli Schlachter
have squashed many more bugs and improved the documentation. I would
strongly recommend everyone to upgrade to cairo-1.12.2.
-Chris
Bug fixes
---------
Allow applications to create 0x0 xlib surfaces, such as used by LibreOffice.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49118
Trim composite extents for SOURCE/CLEAR operators to the mask.
Use fallback fonts in PDF for unhandled computed glyph widths
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48349
Handle snapshots of recording surfaces for analysing pattern extents.
Fixes a regression of reporting the PDF bounding box as being the page size.
Fix allocation size for PDF pattern ids.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49089
Fix emission of rectilinear dashed segments, with and without scaling, and
application of degenerate line joins.
Clamp unbounded fixup polygons to the clip extents.
Prevent infinite loop due to rounding errors whilst incrementing along dashes.
Prevent overflow for inline a8 span filling.
Miscellaneous build fixes for Cygwin on Windows and Solaris.
Release 1.12.0 (2012-03-23 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
It's taken over 18 months, but the wait is finally over. A new cairo release!
We are pleased to annouce a new stable release of Cairo that brings many
new features and performance improvements, all whilst maintaining
compatibility with cairo-1.0 and all releases since. We recommend anyone
using a previous release of Cairo to upgrade to 1.12.0.
The major feature of this release is the introduction of a new procedural
pattern; the mesh gradient. This, albeit complex, gradient is constructed
from a set of cubic Bezier patches and is a superset of all other gradient
surfaces which allows for the construction of incredibily detailed patterns.
In PDF parlance, the mesh gradient corresponds with type 7 patterns. Many
thanks to Andrea Canciani for bringing this to Cairo, and for his work on
making gradient handling robust.
Not content with just adding another procedural pattern, Cairo 1.12 also
adds new API to create a callback pattern,
cairo_pattern_create_raster_source, that allows the application to
provide the pixel data for the region of interest at the time of
rendering. This can be used for instance, by an application to decode
compressed images on demand and to keep a cache of those decompressed
images, independently of Cairo. When combined with the recording
surface, it should form a useful basis for a deferred renderer.
With the release of cairo-1.12, we also introduce a new supported
backend for interoperating with X using XCB. Uli Schlachter, also
maintainer of awesome and contributor to libxcb, has volunteered to
maintain cairo-xcb for us. Thanks Uli!
For cairo-1.12, we have also added some common API to address any
surface as an image and so allow direct modification of the raster data.
Previously, only the Quartz and Win32 backends supported a very narrow
interface to allow for efficient pixel upload. Now with
cairo_surface_create_similar_image, cairo_surface_map_to_image, and
cairo_surface_unmap_image, Cairo exports a consistent method for
treating those surfaces as an image and so allow modification inplace.
These are the same routines used internally, and should support
efficient transfer or direct mapping of the target surfaces as
applicable.
Another focus over the past year has been to address many performance
issues, without sacrificing the composition model. To accomplish the
goal, once again the rasterisation pipeline was overhauled and made
explicit, giving the backends the freedom to implement their own
specific pipeline whilst also providing a library of common routines
from which to build the pipeline. For instance, this allows the image
backend and the gl backend to composite scan line primitives inplace,
and to then implement custom fallbacks to catch the corner cases that do
not map onto their fastest paths. Similarly, this allows for the Xlib
backend to implement trapezoidation without compromising the other
backends, yet still allow for the pipeline to be used elsewhere for
testing and fallbacks. Clipping was once again overhauled, so that the
common cases for the raster pipelines could be captured and processed
with fast paths with the emphasis on performing geometric clipping to
reduce the frequency of using multi-pass clipmasks. Stroking was made
faster, both by providing specialised fast-paths for simple, yet frequent,
cases (such as stroking around a rectangle) and by reducing the number
of edges generated by the general stroker.
As part of the focus on performance, Cairo 1.12 introduces some
antialias hints (NONE, FAST, GOOD, BEST) that are interpolated by the
rasterisers to fine tune their performance versus quality. Cairo 1.12
also introduces a new observation architecture,
cairo_surface_observer_t, which can be used to analyse the amount of
time consumed by drawing commands and help identify inefficiencies in
both Cairo and the application.
Last, but by no means least, the OpenGL backend has seen significant
work including the port to GLESv2 and the exploitation of advanced
hardware features. Interesting times.
As always, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to Cairo,
not only through writing code, but also submitting documentation, bug
reports, suggestions and generally having fun with Cairo! In particular
though this release could not have happened without the efforts of
Adrian Johnson, Alexandros Frantiz, Andrea Canicani, Martin Robinson,
Nis Martensen, and Uli Schlachter. Thanks.
-Chris
Snapshot 1.11.4 (2012-13-12)
============================
The cairo community is pleased to finally announce the long aniticpated
release candidate for 1.12, 1.11.4, of the cairo graphics library. This
is the first major update to cairo in over a year and brings a large
number of new features; undoubtably a few bugs as well.
While many people have contributed and have helped to test the release,
providing feedback on 1.10 and suggesting improvements, this release
is the result of a few persevering souls who deserve recognition for their
outstanding contributions: Andrea Canciani (all round bug fixing,
performance tuning and master of the gradients), Adrian Johnson (PDF
supremo) and Uli Schlachter (who stepped forward as maintainer for the
XCB backend).
Major additions since 1.11.2:
* cairo_surface_map_to_image API for pixel level access to any surface
* New antialias hints to control the trade-off between speed and quality
* A callback pattern, cairo_pattern_create_raster_source, for lazy
decoding of image data.
* cairo_surface_observer_t, a new type of surface to gather performance
statistics
* XCB as a supported backend
* A rewritten compositor pipeline for performance improvements for, but not
limited to, the xlib and image backends.
From ION and PineView through to SandyBridge, every machine I have shows
across the board performance improvement on the cairo-traces:
i5-2520m gnome-system-monitor: 5.97x speedup
pnv gnome-system-monitor: 4.86x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-asteroids: 4.66x speedup
pnv firefox-asteroids: 4.43x speedup
image firefox-canvas: 3.82x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-canvas-alpha: 3.49x speedup
image firefox-asteroids: 2.87x speedup
pnv firefox-talos-svg: 2.83x speedup
ion grads-heat-map: 2.75x speedup
pnv firefox-canvas-alpha: 2.66x speedup
image gnome-system-monitor: 2.66x speedup
image swfdec-giant-steps: 2.46x speedup
image firefox-canvas-alpha: 2.14x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-talos-svg: 2.03x speedup
image grads-heat-map: 2.02x speedup
ion gnome-system-monitor: 2.00x speedup
pnv firefox-particles: 1.99x speedup
i5-2520m grads-heat-map: 1.96x speedup
pnv firefox-canvas: 1.92x speedup
ion firefox-particles: 1.80x speedup
image poppler-reseau: 1.77x speedup
pnv xfce4-terminal-a1: 1.72x speedup
image firefox-talos-svg: 1.65x speedup
pnv grads-heat-map: 1.63x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-canvas: 1.63x speedup
pnv swfdec-youtube: 1.62x speedup
image ocitysmap: 1.59x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-fishbowl: 1.56x speedup
i5-2520m poppler-reseau: 1.50x speedup
i5-2520m evolution: 1.50x speedup
i5-2520m midori-zoomed: 1.43x speedup
pnv firefox-planet-gnome: 1.42x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-talos-gfx: 1.41x speedup
i5-2520m gvim: 1.41x speedup
pnv ocitysmap: 1.37x speedup
image poppler: 1.31x speedup
ion firefox-canvas-alpha: 1.35x speedup
ion firefox-talos-svg: 1.34x speedup
i5-2520m ocitysmap: 1.32x speedup
pnv poppler-reseau: 1.31x speedup
i5-2520m firefox-planet-gnome: 1.31x speedup
pnv firefox-fishbowl: 1.30x speedup
pnv evolution: 1.28x speedup
image gvim: 1.27x speedup
i5-2520m swfdec-youtube: 1.25x speedup
pnv gnome-terminal-vim: 1.27x speedup
pnv gvim: 1.25x speedup
image firefox-planet-gnome: 1.25x speedup
image swfdec-youtube: 1.25x speedup
...
And a plethora of minor improvements everywhere!
-Chris
Snapshot 1.11.2 (2011-01-23)
===========================
In this first snapshot along the way to cairo-1.12.0, we are very excited
to announce the introduction of Bezier surface gradients, known as type
6/7 gradients in PS/PDF parlance. This is the culmination of much work by
the dynamic duo: Adrian Johnson and Andrea Canciani. Thanks guys!
Also, I want to warmly welcome Uli Schlachter who recently joined the
Cairo community on a mission. That mission is to make cairo-xcb a
supported backend for 1.12. And for this snapshot he has made great
strides in fixing all the bugs I had left behind. Thanks Uli!
And we have also seen a new contributor, Alexandros Frantzis, who has
begun bringing up cairo-gl for GLESv2 devices. Thanks Alex!
And lastly, I must also thank Adrian and Andrea for the vast numbers of
bugs that they have tackled between them, fixing all those little corner
cases that lie hidden until too late.
API additions:
The ability to construct piece-wise Bezier surface gradients:
cairo_pattern_create_mesh
constructs a pattern of type CAIRO_PATTERN_TYPE_MESH using
cairo_pattern_mesh_begin_patch
cairo_pattern_mesh_end_patch
cairo_pattern_mesh_curve_to
cairo_pattern_mesh_line_to
cairo_pattern_mesh_move_to
cairo_pattern_mesh_set_control_point
cairo_pattern_mesh_set_corner_color_rgb
cairo_pattern_mesh_set_corner_color_rgba
cairo_pattern_mesh_get_patch_count
cairo_pattern_mesh_get_path
cairo_pattern_mesh_get_corner_color_rgba
cairo_pattern_mesh_get_control_point
The introduction of a unique ID accessible via the mime data type:
CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_UNIQUE_ID
Release 1.10.2 (2010-12-25 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.10.2 release of the
cairo graphics library. This is the first update to cairo's stable 1.10
series and contains a large number of bug fixes.
While many people have contributed and have help to test the release,
2 people deserve special recognition for their efforts in tracking down
and fixing bugs, Andrea Canciani and Adrian Johnson. Thanks to their
tremendous efforts, and of all cairo contributors, it is much
appreciated.
We recommend everyone upgrade to cairo 1.10.2 and hope that everyone
will continue to have lots of fun with cairo!
-Chris
Bug fixes
---------
Fix embedding of grayscale jpegs in PS.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31632
Fix the reported path of extents containing a curve.
Fix the compositing of unaligned boxes.
Reset the clipper in PDF upon finish.
Fix degenerates arcs to become a degenerate line.
Build support for autoconf 2.67
Fix painting of transformed patterns in PS
Fix the EPS bounding box for PS
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24688
Fix the missing content for EPS
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24688
Fix regression upon changing page size in PS/PDF
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24691
Only use ActualText with PDF-1.5 documents
Fix the bbox for type1 fallbacks.
Reset the color after ending the context in PDF
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31140
Fix the advance of subsetted type1 fonts
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31062
Fix handling of EXTEND_NONE gradients for PDF
Restrict in-place optimisation for a8 image masks with SOURCE
Release 1.10.0 (2010-09-06 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
===================================================================
The cairo community is astounded (and flabbergast) to finally announce
the 1.10.0 release of the cairo graphics library. This is a major update
to cairo, with new features and enhanced functionality which maintains
compatibility for applications written using any previous major cairo
release, (1.8, 1.6, 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0). We recommend that anybody using
a previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.10.0.
One of the more interesting departures for cairo for this release is the
inclusion of a tracing utility, cairo-trace. cairo-trace generates a
human-readable, replayable, compact representation of the sequences of
drawing commands made by an application. This can be used to inspecting
applications to understand issues and as a means for profiling
real-world usage of cairo.
The traces generated by cairo-trace have been collected in
git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo-traces
and have driven the performance tuning of cairo over the last couple of
years. In particular, the image backend is much faster with a new
polygon rasterisation and a complete overhaul of the tessellator. Not
only is this faster, but also eliminates visual artifacts from
self-intersecting strokes. Not only has cairo-trace been driving
performance improvements within cairo, but as a repeatable means of
driving complex graphics it has been used to tune OpenGL, DDX, and
pixman.
Cairo's API has been extended to better support printing, notably
through the ability to include a single compressed representation of an
image for patterns used throughout a document, leading to dramatic file
size reductions. Also the meta-surface used to record the vector
commands compromising a drawing sequence is now exposed as a
CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_RECORDING, along with a new surface that is a child of a
larger surface, CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_SUBSURFACE. One typical usage of a
subsurface would be as a source glyph in a texture atlas, or as a
restricted subwindow within a canvas.
Cairo's API has also resurrected the RGB16 format from the past as
the prevalence of 16-bit framebuffers has not diminished and is a
fore-taste of the extended format support we anticipate in the future.
Increasing cairo's utility, we introduce the cairo_region_t for handling
sets of pixel aligned rectangles commonly used in graphics applications.
This is a merger of the GdkRegion and the pixman_region_t, hopefully
providing the utility of the former with the speed of the latter.
Furthermore cairo has been reworked to interoperate more closely with
various acceleration architectures, gaining the ability to share
those hardware resources through the new cairo_device_t. For instance,
with the new OpenGL backend that supersedes the Glitz backend, hardware
and rendering operations can be shared between a classic OpenGL
application mixing libVA for the hardware assisted video decode with
cairo for high quality overlays all within the same OpenGL canvas.
Many thanks for the hard work of Adrian Johnson, Andrea Canciani, Behdad
Esfahbod, Benjamin Otte, Carl Worth, Carlos Garcia Campos, Chris Wilson,
Eric Anholt, Jeff Muizelaar, Karl Tomlinson, M Joonas Pihlaja, Søren
Sandmann Pedersen and many others that have contributed over the last
couple of years to cairo. Thank you all!
Snapshot 1.9.14 (2010-07-26)
============================
A quiet couple of weeks, hopefully Cairo is seeing widescale deployment and
we are being to see the results of the stabilisation effort. Clipping bugs
seems to have been the order of the last couple of weeks, with a couple
reported and duly fixed. Thank you Igor Nikitin and Karl Tomlinsion for
finding those regressions. At this point all that seems to remain to do is
to fix the outstanding regressions in the PDF backend...
Bugs fixes
----------
Clip doesn't work for text on the image backend
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29008
Add explicit dependency for cxx
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29114
Fix regressions in reporting clip extents
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29120
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29121
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29122
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29124
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29125
Snapshot 1.9.12 (2010-07-12)
============================
A couple of weeks spent fixing those annoying bugs and cleaning up the build
system; the list of outstanding tasks to complete for the stable release is
finally shrinking. The chief bug fixer has been Benjamin Otte who not only
made sure that the public API is consistent and being tested for its
consistency, but also ensured that the documentation was up-to-date and
spent time clarifying cases where even the Cairo developers have come
unstuck in the past. Many thanks, Benjamin. However, he was not alone,
as Andrea Canciani continued his fine work in isolating broken corner cases
and proceeding to fix them, and tidying up the quartz backend. And last, but
definitely not least, M Joonas Pihlaja tried building Cairo across a
perverse range of systems and fixed up all the loose bits of code that came
unravelled. Thanks everybody!
API Changes
-----------
cairo_surface_set_mime_data, cairo_surface_get_mime_data:
The length parameter is now an unsigned long (as opposed to an unsigned
int). The parameter is intended to be an equivalent to a size_t without
requiring POSIX types and be large enough to store the size of the
largest possible allocation.
cairo_gl_surface_create_for_texture:
This a new surface constructor for cairo-gl that explicitly enables
render-to-texture for foreign, i.e. application, textures.
cairo_region_xor, cairo_region_xor_rectangle
A couple of utility routines add to the region handling interface for
the purpose of replacing existing GdkRegion functionality.
Bugs fixes
----------
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/600622
Inkscape was caught in the act of attempting to modify a finished surface.
Unfortunately, we had the ordering of our guards and assertions wrong and
so an ordinary application error was triggering an assert in Cairo. This
lead Benjamin to add a test case to ensure that the entire public API
could handle erroneous input and then proceeded to fix a whole slew of
uncovered bugs.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28888
A regression introduced by the special casing of uploading images to an
xlib surface in-place which was ignoring the translation applied to the
image.
Snapshot 1.9.10 (2010-06-26)
============================
The first "quick" snapshot in the run up to the stable release. The
last snapshot was picked up by the bleeding edge distributions and so the
bug reports have to started to roll in. The most frequent of these are the
introduction of rendering errors by applications that modify a surface
without subsequently calling cairo_surface_mark_dirty(). Make sure the
application developers are aware of increased reliance on strict use of the
Cairo API before 1.10 is released!
The usual slew of bugs reported and we would like to thank Zoxc for
contributing the WGL interface for cairo-gl, and finding more build
failures on win32. And it just wouldn't be a 1.9 snapshot unless
Benjamin Otte improved the error handling within cairo-gl, as well as
isolating and fixing some more errors in the test suite. The biggest bug of
the snapshot turned out to be a major sign extension issue that had lain
hidden for many years and was suddenly exposed by incorrectly rounding
rectangles when performing non-antialiased rendering. Also to the relief
of many we have included the downstream patch to honour the user's LCD
filtering preferences for subpixel rendering of fonts. The interface
remains private for the time being, whilst the proposed public API is
finalized.
API changes
-----------
None.
Snapshot 1.9.8 (2010-06-12)
===========================
One major API changes since the last snapshot, and a whole slew of bugs
fixed and inconsistencies eliminated. Far too many bugs fixed to
individually identify. We need to thank Benjamin Otte for his fantastic
work on the cairo-gl backend making it faster and more robust, Andrea
Canciani for finding so many bugs and developing test cases for them, as
well fixing them. And last but not least we must all thank Adrian Johnson for
continuing to eliminate bugs and improving the PostScript and PDF backends.
This snapshot represents almost 4 months of bug fixing, bringing Cairo to
a point where we consider it almost ready to be a candidate for release.
There are a few known bugs left to be fixed, being tracked in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24384, so please give Cairo a
whirl and report any regressions. The plan is to release a new snapshot
every other week leading to a 1.10 release with a target date of
2010-08-16.
API additions
-------------
CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565
16 bit devices still remain popular, and so with great demand,
CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565 has been restored enabling applications to create
and use 16 bit images as sources and render targets.
cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle()
It is common practice to cut an image up into many smaller pieces and use
each of those as a source - a technique called texture atlasing.
cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle() extends Cairo to directly support use
of these subregions of another cairo_surface_t both as a source and as a
render target.
cairo_region_create()
cairo_region_create_rectangle()
cairo_region_create_rectangles()
cairo_region_copy()
cairo_region_reference()
cairo_region_destroy()
cairo_region_equal()
cairo_region_status()
cairo_region_get_extents()
cairo_region_num_rectangles()
cairo_region_get_rectangle()
cairo_region_is_empty()
cairo_region_contains_rectangle()
cairo_region_contains_point()
cairo_region_translate()
cairo_region_subtract()
cairo_region_subtract_rectangle()
cairo_region_intersect()
cairo_region_intersect_rectangle()
cairo_region_union()
cairo_region_union_rectangle()
The Cairo region API was actually added a couple of snapshots ago, but we
forgot to mention it at the time. A simple API for the handling of
rectangular pixel-aligned regions by Soeren Sandmann.
Backend-specific improvements
-----------------------------
cairo-gl
Benjamin Otte made more than 200 commits in which he refactored the cairo-gl
backend, reducing a lot of code duplication and enabled him to begin working
on improving performance by reducing state changes and associated overhead.
cairo-xlib
Access to the underlying connection to the Display is now thread-safe
enabling cairo-xlib to be used in a multi-threaded application without fear
of random corruption. Thanks Benjamin Otte!
cairo-xlib will now attempt to use PolyModeImprecise when compositing
trapezoids (i.e. a fill or a stroke operation with a non-trivial path) which
should allow hardware drivers more scope for accelerating the operation at
the cost of potentially incurring minute rendering errors. The mode can be
forced back to PolyModePrecise by setting the antialias parameter to
CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_SUBPIXEL.
cairo-svg
A notable improvement was contributed by Alexander Shulgin to enable SVG to
reference external image through the use an extended MIME data type.
Snapshot 1.9.6 (2010-02-19)
===========================
API additions
-------------
Add cairo_device_t
The device is a generic method for accessing the underlying interface
with the native graphics subsystem, typically the X connection or
perhaps the GL context. By exposing a cairo_device_t on a surface and
its various methods we enable finer control over interoperability with
external interactions of the device by applications. The use case in
mind is, for example, a multi-threaded gstreamer which needs to serialise
its own direct access to the device along with Cairo's across many
threads.
Secondly, the cairo_device_t is a unifying API for the mismash of
backend specific methods for controlling creation of surfaces with
explicit devices and a convenient hook for debugging and introspection.
The principal components of the API are the memory management of:
cairo_device_reference(),
cairo_device_finish() and
cairo_device_destroy();
along with a pair of routines for serialising interaction:
cairo_device_acquire() and
cairo_device_release()
and a method to flush any outstanding accesses:
cairo_device_flush().
The device for a particular surface may be retrieved using:
cairo_surface_get_device().
The device returned is owned by the surface.
API changes (to API new in the cairo 1.9.x series)
--------------------------------------------------
cairo_recording_surface_create()
cairo_recording_surface_ink_extents()
These are the replacement names for the functions previously named
cairo_meta_surface_create and cairo_meta_surface_ink_extents.
cairo_surface_set_mime_data
This interface is now changed such that the MIME data will be
detached if the surface is modified at all. This guarantees that
the MIME data will not become out of synch due to surface
modifications, and also means that for the MIME data to be useful,
it must be set after all modifications to the surface are
complete.
API removal (of experiment API)
-------------------------------
The cairo-glitz backend is removed entirely, (in favor of the new
cairo-gl backend). See below for more on cairo-gl.
Generic fixes
-------------
Many improvements for drawing of dashed strokes
Fix incorrect handling of negative offset
Faster computation of first dash (avoids near-infinite looping)
Approximate extremely fine dash patterns with appropriate alpha value
Optimize spans-based renderers for repeated rows, (such as in a rounded rectangle)
Backend-specific improvements
-----------------------------
cairo-drm
This is a new, direct-rendering backend that supports Intel graphics
chipsets in the i915 and i965 families. It's still experimental and
will likely remain that way for a while. It's already got extremely
good performance on the hardware it supports, so if nothing else
provides a working proof and performance target for the cairo-gl
work for Intel graphics.
cairo-gl
Start using GLSL to accelerate many operations. Many thanks to Eric
Anholt and T. Zachary Laine for this work. For the first time, we
have what looks like what will be a very compelling OpenGL-based
backend for cairo (in terms of both quality and performance).
See this writeup from Eric for more details on recent progress of
cairo-gl (which he presented at FOSDEM 2010):
http://anholt.livejournal.com/42146.html
cairo-image
The image backend is made dramatically faster (3-5 times faster for
benchmarks consisting primarily of glyph rendering).
cairo-quartz fixes:
Many fixes from Robert O'Callahan and Andrea Canciani including:
Fixed gradient pattern painting
Improved A8 image handling
Fixes for "unbounded" and other compositing operators
cairo-pdf fixes:
Improvements to embedding of JPEG and JPEG2000 data.
cairo-ps fixes:
Fix printing of rotated user fonts.
Snapshot 1.9.4 (2009-10-15)
===========================
API additions:
cairo_meta_surface_create()
cairo_meta_surface_ink_extents()
Finally exporting the internal meta-surface so that applications
have a method to record and replay a sequence of drawing commands.
cairo_in_clip()
Determines whether a given point is inside the current clip.
??? Should this be called cairo_in_paint() instead? in-clip is the test
that is performed, but in-paint would be similar to in-fill and in-stroke.
New utilities:
cairo-test-trace
A companion to cairo-perf-trace, this utility replays a trace against
multiple targets in parallel and looks for differences in the output,
and then records any drawing commands that cause a failure.
Future plans:
Further minimisation of the fail trace using "delta debugging".
More control over test/reference targets.
Backend improvements:
xlib
Server-side gradients. The theory is that we can offload computation
of gradients to the GPU and avoid pushing large images over the
connection. Even if the driver has to fallback and use pixman to render
a temporary source, it should be able to do so in a more efficient manner
than Cairo itself. However, cairo-perf suggests otherwise:
On tiny, Celeron/i915:
before: firefox-20090601 211.585
after: firefox-20090601 270.939
and on tiger, CoreDuo/nvidia:
before: firefox-20090601 70.143
after: firefox-20090601 87.326
In particular, looking at tiny:
xlib-rgba paint-with-alpha_linear-rgba_over-512 47.11 (47.16 0.05%) -> 123.42 (123.72 0.13%): 2.62x slowdown
█▋
xlib-rgba paint-with-alpha_linear3-rgba_over-512 47.27 (47.32 0.04%) -> 123.78 (124.04 0.13%): 2.62x slowdown
█▋
New experimental backends:
QT
OpenVG - The initial work was done by Øyvind Kolås, and made ready for
inclusion by Pierre Tardy.
OpenGL - An advanced OpenGL compositor. The aim is to write a integrate
directed rendering using OpenGL at a high-level into Cairo. In
contrast to the previous attempt using Glitz which tried to
implement the RENDER protocol on top of OpenGL, using the
high-level interface should permit greater flexibility and
more offloading onto the GPU.
The initial work on the backend was performed by Eric Anholt.
Long standing bugs fixed:
Self-intersecting strokes.
A long standing bug where the coverage from overlapping semi-opaque
strokes (including neighbouring edges) was simply summed in lieu of
a costly global calculation has been fixed (by performing the costly
global calculation!) In order to mitigate the extra cost, the
tessellator has been overhauled and tune, which handles the fallback
for when we are unable to use the new span rasteriser on the stroke
(e.g. when using the current RENDER protocol). The large number of
pixel artefacts that implementing self-intersection elimination
removes is ample justification for the potential performance
regression. If you unfortunately do suffer a substantial performance
regression in your application, please consider obtaining a
cairo-trace and submitting it to us for analysis and inclusion into
our performance suite.
Special thanks:
To the AuroraUX team for providing access to one of their OpenSolaris
machines for cairo and pixman development. http://www.auroraux.org/
Snapshot 1.9.2 (2009-06-12)
===========================
API additions:
cairo_surface_set_mime_data()
cairo_surface_get_mime_data()
Should this take unsigned int, unsigned long or size_t for the length
parameter? (Some datasets may be >4GiB in size.)
Associate an alternate, compressed, representation for a surface.
Currently:
"image/jp2" (JPEG2000) is understood by PDF >= 1.5
"image/jpeg" is understood by PDF,PS,SVG,win32-printing.
"image/png" is understood by SVG.
cairo_pdf_version_t
cairo_pdf_surface_restrict_to_version()
cairo_pdf_get_versions()
cairo_pdf_version_to_string()
Similar to restrict to version and level found in SVG and PS,
these limit the features used in the output to comply with the PDF
specification for that version.
CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_SIZE
Indicates that the request surface size is not supported by the
backend. This generally indicates that the request is too large.
CAIRO_STATUS_USER_FONT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
Indicates that a required callback for a user-font was not implemented.
CAIRO_STATUS_LAST_STATUS
This is a special value to indicate the number of status values enumerated
at compile time. (This may differ to the number known at run-time.)
The built-in twin font is now called "@cairo:" and supports a limited set
of options like "@cairo:mono". Where are these specified?
cairo_in_fill() now uses HTML Canvas semantics, all edges are inside.
New experimental backends:
CairoScript
New utility:
cairo-trace and cairo-perf-trace
cairo-trace generates a human-readable, replayable, compact(-ish!)
representation of the sequences of drawing commands made by an
application.
Under the util/cairo-script directory is a library to replay traces.
perf/cairo-perf-trace replays traces against multiple backends
and makes useful benchmark reports. This is integrated with
'make perf'. You may collect your own traces or take advantage
of traces collected by the community:
git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo-traces
(Put this into perf/cairo-traces to run these as part of "make perf".)
There is additional WIP in building a debugging tool for cairo applications
based on CairoScript (currently very preliminary, mostly serves to show
that GtkSourceView is too slow) :
people.freedesktop.org:~ickle/sphinx
Test suite overhaul:
The test suite is undergoing an overhaul, primarily to improve its speed
and utility. (Expect more changes in the near future to improve XFAIL
handling.)
Optimisations:
polygon rasterisation! Joonas implemented the Tor polygon scan converter,
on typical geometry is about 30% faster for the image backend.
Bovine Polaroids! For those not in on the joke, this is the long
awaited "copy-on-write snapshot" or "COW snapshot" support. The
user-visible feature is that including the same image multiple times
into a PDF file should result in only a single instance of that
image in the final output. This is unlike previous versions of cairo
which would generate very large PDF files with multiple copies of
the same image. Adrian says that the PDF is not quite working as
well as it should yet, so we hope for further improvements before
cairo 1.10.
Bug fixes:
EXTEND_PAD.
Better handling of large scale-factors on image patterns.
Emit /Interpolate for PS,PDF images.
Global glyph cache - cap on the total number of inactive glyphs,
should prove fairer for fonts with larger glyph sets.
Compilation without fontconfig
Improved handling of low-bitdepth sources (e.g. copying the contents
of 16-bit xserver windows)
Regressions:
cairo_traps_extract_region >10x slower. Fix pending.
Still to come:
Region tracking API (ssp) for damage tracking, hit testing etc
mime-surface
An expiremental OpenGL backend?
Tweaks to tessellator, allocations of patterns, delayed
initialisation of the xlib backend (reduce the cairo overhead of
render_bench by ~80%).
Release 1.8.8 (2009-06-16 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
==================================================================
The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.8 release of the
cairo graphics library. This is the fourth update to cairo's stable
1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes (in particular a
few corrections to the documentation and a few fixes in the FreeType font
backend). This is being released just over six months after cairo 1.8.6.
We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.8.
-Chris
Build fixes
-----------
There were reports of incompatibilities with the autotools bundled in with
the 1.8.6 tarball. This release has been built with automake-1.10.2 and
autoconf-2.63.
The configure check for FreeType has been improved:
typo in check for version of freetype in configure script
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19283
Compilation on 64-bit MacOS/X fixes:
Cannot build cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id on 64-bit Mac OS X
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15702
Bug fixes
---------
Uninitialised status return within _cairo_clip_intersect_mask(). This caused
random crashes and general mayhem as an error could be generated causing all
rendering to the context to stop.
Avoid transforming nearly-degenerate matrices into degenerate matrices:
Painting stops in this case, using -moz-transform: scale, rotate and video
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467423
A few FreeType font handling bugs were fixed:
Rendering with PANGO_GRAVITY_EAST leads to different results with image and pdf
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21985
Don't call FT_Done_Face() on faces we did not create
zombie ft_font_face / ft_unscaled_font mutual referencing problems
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21706
Ensure win32 font backend sets the return value to -1 (indicating the absent
glyph) if the font index lookup for the unicode character fails. And
similarly fix a bug where a fatal error was raised for an invalid glyph.
cairo_scaled_font_glyph_extents breaks with invalid glyph id
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20255
Various improvements to the documentation, reported by Truc Troung:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20095
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20154
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20180
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20183
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20182
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20441
Release 1.8.6 (2008-12-13 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
==================================================================
The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.6 release of the
cairo graphics library. This is the third update to cairo's stable
1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes (in particular a
few fixes for failures of cairo 1.8.4 on Quartz and PDF, and build fixes for
a couple of backends). This is being released just under a month after
cairo 1.8.4.
We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.6.
-Chris
Build fixes
-----------
Fix build of DirectFB backend with debugging enabled:
Bug in _cairo_directfb_surface_release_source_image function
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322
Fix build on OS/2.
Bug fixes
---------
Workaround a mis-compilation of cairo_matrix_invert() that generated invalid
matrices and triggered assertion failures later. The issue was reported by
Peter Hercek.
Invalid computation of the modulus:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466258
Invalid referencing of patterns in the Quartz backend:
Failed assertion `CAIRO_REFERENCE_COUNT_HAS_REFERENCE
(&pattern->ref_count)' when using cairo quartz backend
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18632
Invalid references to glyphs after early culling, causing segmentation faults
in the PDF backend:
http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-December/015976.html
Check for XRender in the XCB backend, or else we may attempt an invalid memory
access:
XCB backend fails with missing render.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18588
Release 1.8.4 (2008-11-14 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.4 release of the
cairo graphics library. This is the second update to cairo's stable
1.8 series and contains a small number of bug fixes, (in particular a
few fixes for build failures of cairo 1.8.2 on various systems). This
is being released just over two weeks after cairo 1.8.2.
We recommend that everyone using cairo upgrade to 1.8.4.
-Carl
Build fixes
-----------
Fix build with older XRender that doesn't define RepeatNone:
Build of xlib backend fails against old XRender (RepeatNone undeclared)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18385
Fix build with bash version <= 3.0:
doltlibtool broken on linux with bash 3.00.0
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18363
Bug fixes
---------
Avoid triggering a bug in X.org server 6.9 resulting in a hung machine
requiring a reboot:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15628#c2
Fix display of user fonts as exercised by proposed support for type3
fonts in poppler (unsigned promotion fixes):
Use cairo user-font for Type 3 fonts
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2008-October/004181.html
Avoid miscomputing size of fallback images required when rendering
with CLEAR, IN, or SOURCE operator to vector surfaces, (PS, PDF, SVG,
etc.).
Be more tolerant of broken fonts when subsetting type1 fonts:
Error handling in cairo_type1_font_subset_get_glyph_names_and_widths
http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-October/015569.html
Fix cairo_fill_extents, cairo_stroke_extents, cairo_path_extents, to
correctly allow NULL parameters as documented.
Fix potential crash on emitting a type3 glyph after having drawn text
paths from the same font, (for example with cairo_text_path).
Release 1.8.2 (2008-10-29 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is pleased to announce the 1.8.2 release of the
cairo graphics library. This is the first update to cairo's stable 1.8
series and contains a large number of bug fixes. It is being released
just over one month since cairo 1.8.0.
This release consists primarily of bug fixes, but there is one notable
new feature, (the ability to build cairo without an external font
backend), and there are a few optimizations as well. See below for
details on these changes and the most important bug fixes.
While many people have contributed to this release, Chris Wilson
deserves particular mention. He has contributed well over twice as
many changes to cairo since 1.8.0 than everyone else combined. We
greatly appreciate the tremendous efforts of Chris and all cairo
contributors.
We recommend everyone upgrade to cairo 1.8.2 and hope that everyone
will have lots of fun with cairo!
-Carl
New feature
-----------
It is now possible to build cairo without any font backend, (such as
freetype, win32 or quartz). This is most useful when the application
provides custom font rendering through the user-font API. But in the
case where no external font backend is available, and no user-font is
provided, cairo will render with a failsafe font, (a stroked font
covering visible ASCII character). (Behdad Esfahbod)
Optimizations
-------------
Dramatically speed up compilation with dolt (removes much of the
libtool overhead) (Behdad Esfahbod with thanks to Josh Triplett).
Several minor optimizations to tessellator (special-cased comparisons,
faster insert for skiplist, etc.) (Chris Wilson).
Optimize away fractional translation component when doing
EXTEND_NEAREST filtering, (for better performance).
General bug fixes
-----------------
Allow cloning sub-regions of similar surfaces to fix this bug
(Chris Wilson):
Crafted gif file will crash firefox
[XError: 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)']
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424333
Fix some matrix confusion to fix this regression (Chris Wilson):
Translucent star exports in a wrong way to PDF
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/234546
Fix some long-standing bugs with respect to properly computing the
extents of transformed, filtered surfaces (Owen Taylor, Carl Worth,
and Chris Wilson):
Bad clipping with EXTEND_NONE
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15349
Improve filtering handling in cairo-pattern.c
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15367
Many thanks to Chris Wilson for digging out and cleaning up
these fixes.
Fix compilation on Solaris 10 (Chris Wilson):
Cairo requires -DREENTRANT (along with -D_POSIX_THREAD_SEMANTICS)
to compile on Solaris 10 with pthreads
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18010
Fix very old bug causing dashes to be rendered at the wrong length in
fallback images (Adrian Johnson)
Dashed strokes too long in fallback images
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9189
Fix broken dashing when a dashed path starts outside the clip region
(Chris Wilson).
Avoid range overflow when computing large patterns (Benjamin Otte and
Chris Wilson).
Avoid crashing due to an invalid font with an incorrect entry in its
CMAP table (Adrian Johnson).
Fix bugs in computing maximum size of text requests that can be sent
with the Render extension, (avoiding potential crashes when rendering
large amounts of text) (Behdad Esfahbod and Chris Wilson).
Fix rendering of operators unbounded by the mask (Chris Wilson).
Fix compilation on systems without compiler support for a native
64-bit type (Chris Wilson).
Fix several cases of missing error-status propagation. (Chris Wilson,
doing the work he seems to never tire of).
Fix several locking issues found with the lockdep valgrind skin (Chris
Wilson).
Backend-specific bug fixes
--------------------------
xlib: Avoid crash due to attempting XRender calls on pixmaps with
formats not supported by the Render extension (Chris Wilson):
XRender crashes due to NULL pointer from Cairo on SGI O2
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11734
xlib: Add support for XImages with depth of 4, 20, 24, or 28 bits
(Chris Wilson):
cairo doesn't support 24 bits per pixel mode on X11
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9102
xlib: Avoid mistakenly considering two surfaces as similar just
because their depths match (while their Render formats do not) (Karl
Tomlinson).
ps: Fix slight mis-scaling of bitmapped fonts (Adrian Johnson)
svg: Correctly emit comp-op for paint, mask, and show_glyphs
operations (Emmanuel Pacaud).
svg: Use finer-grained fallbacks for SVG 1.2 (as PS and PDF backends
have been doing since 1.6.0) (Chris Wilson).
win32: Fallback to DIB if DDB create fails for
cairo_surface_create_similar (Vladimir Vukicevic).
win32: Fix compatibility with Windows Mobile (Vladimir Vukicevic).
win32: Fix static builds to not do __declspec(dllimport) on public
functions. This requires the user to set a CAIRO_WIN32_STATIC_BUILD
environment variable when compiling (Behdad Esfahbod).
Release 1.8.0 (2008-09-25 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is happy (and relieved) to announce the 1.8.0
release of the cairo graphics library. This is a major update to
cairo, with new features and enhanced functionality which maintains
compatibility for applications written using any previous major cairo
release, (1.6, 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0). We recommend that anybody using a
previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.8.0.
The dominant theme of this release is improvements to cairo's ability
to handle text. The highlights include a new "user fonts" feature as
well as a new cairo_show_text_glyphs API which allows glyphs to be
embedded in PDF output along with their original text, (for searching,
selection, and copy-and-paste). Another major feature is a revamp of
cairo's build system making it much easier to build cairo on various
platforms.
See below for more details.
User fonts
----------
This new API allows the user of cairo API to provide drawings for
glyphs in a font. A common use for this is implementing fonts in
non-standard formats, like SVG fonts and Flash fonts. This API can
also be used by applications to provide custom glyph shapes for fonts
while still getting access to cairo's glyph caches. See
test/user-font.c and test/user-font-proxy.c for usage examples. This
is based on early work by Kristian Høgsberg. Thanks Kristian!
This new API consists of the following functions (and corresponding
_get functions):
cairo_user_font_face_create
cairo_user_font_face_set_init_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_render_glyph_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_text_to_glyphs_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_unicode_to_glyph_func
An additional, new API is
cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs
We were previously reluctant to provide this function as
text-to-glyphs support in cairo was limited to "toy" font
functionality, not really interesting for real-world text
processing. However, with user fonts landing, this API is needed to
expose full access to how user fonts convert text to glyphs. This is
expected to be used by text toolkits like Pango, as well as "proxy"
user-font implementations.
cairo_show_text_glyphs
----------------------
This new API allows the caller of cairo to provide text data
corresponding to glyphs being drawn. The PDF backend implements this
new API so that complex text can be copied out of cairo's PDF output
correctly and reliably, (assuming the user of cairo calls
cairo_show_text_glyphs). The cairo_show_text_glyphs API is definitely
the most daunting API to debut in cairo. It is anticipated that pango
(and similar high-level text libraries) will be the primary users of
this API. In fact, pango 1.22 already uses cairo_show_text_glyphs.
Behdad was the architect and implementor of this effort. Thanks,
Behdad!
The cairo_show_text_glyphs API includes the following new functions:
cairo_show_text_glyphs
cairo_glyph_allocate
cairo_glyph_free
cairo_text_cluster_allocate
cairo_text_cluster_free
cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs
Build system revamp
-------------------
The primary goal of the revamp is to make the build system less
fragile, (particularly for non-Linux platforms). For example, now
people building on win32 will no longer need to maintain a
platform-specific list of files to be built. See the new README.win32
for details. Also, the .so file will now be installed with a different
naming scheme, (for example, 1.7.6 will install with a .10800
suffix). Many thanks to Behdad and his small army of helpers!
Assorted API additions
----------------------
For API completeness, several missing "getter" functions were added:
cairo_scaled_font_get_scale_matrix
cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution
cairo_toy_font_face_create
cairo_toy_font_face_get_family
cairo_toy_font_face_get_slant
cairo_toy_font_face_get_weight
The new cairo_toy_font_face functions provide access to functionality
and settings provided by cairo_select_font_face(). Thanks Behdad!
cairo-ps/cairo-pdf: More efficient output
-----------------------------------------
Adrian Johnson has been busy fixing all kinds of bugs in PS and PDF
backends, as well making them generate much more compact output by
avoiding things like re-emitting the color or linestyle on every
drawing operation. Thanks Adrian!
cairo-xlib: dithering
---------------------
Dithering: Cairo now does simple dithering when rendering to legacy X
servers. This is most visible with 8-bit visuals. Thanks Behdad!
cairo-xlib: Avoid rendering glyphs out of surface bounds
--------------------------------------------------------
This seemingly harmless optimization exposed a bug in OpenOffice.org 3
versions where OO.o was passing bogus surface extents to cairo,
resulting in no text rendered in OO.o. Please contact your
distribution's OO.o maintainers if you see this bug and point them to
the following URL:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16209
cairo-xlib: Improved performance with X server without Render
-------------------------------------------------------------
Cairo now performs better on remote X servers that lack the Render
extension by being smarter about using X core protocol facilities
instead of falling back to doing all rendering on the client side.
cairo-ft: respecting FC_FT_FACE
-------------------------------
Previously it was impossible to instruct cairo to do emboldening on a
font face object created from an FT_Face. Cairo now respects and uses
the FC_FT_FACE fontconfig pattern element, so emboldening can be
achieved by using cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_pattern() and a
carefully crafted pattern using FC_FT_FACE and FC_EMBOLDEN. Thanks
Behdad!
cairo-directfb: backend improvements
------------------------------------
The directfb backend, though still unsupported, has seen a good deal
of improvements. Thanks Vlad!
Bug fixing and optimizations
----------------------------
xlib: Faster bookkeeping (Karl Tomlinson)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453199#c5
PS: Fix gradients with non-constant alpha (Chris Wilson)
Fix deadlock in user-font code (Richard Hughes and Behdad Esfahbod)
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16819
Countless other bugs have been fixed and optimizations made, many of
them thanks to Chris Wilson. Thanks Chris and others!
Note also that the code that had been in cairo 1.7.x calling into
freetype's optional lcd_filter function was removed from cairo before
the 1.8.0 release. We do expect this code to come back in some form in
the future.
Snapshot 1.7.6 (2008-09-17 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
The cairo community is happy to announce the 1.7.6 snapshot of the
cairo graphics library. This is a "release candidate" for the upcoming
1.8.0 release, so we will greatly appreciate any reports of problems
in this release, and no major changes are currently planned before
1.8.
Notable changes in 1.7.6
------------------------
The largest number of changes since 1.7.4 did not change the
implementation of cairo itself, but instead revamped cairo's build
system. The primary goal of the revamp is to make the build system
less fragile, (particularly for non-Linux platforms). For example, now
people building on win32 will no longer need to maintain a
platform-specific list of files to be built. Also, the .so file will
now be installed with a different naming scheme, (for example, 1.7.6
will install with a .10706 suffix). Much thanks, Behdad!
And, as usual, Chris Wilson has made another large round of robustness
improvements, (eliminating dead code, fixing propagation of error
status values, test suite improvements, etc. etc.). Thanks as always,
Chris!
API changes since 1.7.4
-----------------------
There have been a few changes of API that was new during the 1.7
series:
* Remove cairo_font_options_set_lcd_filter
and cairo_font_options_get_lcd_filter
Motivation: At the Cairo Summit, this API was determined to be too
specific to the freetype font backend to be in the general
API. A similar API with a cairo_ft prefix might be introduced
in the future. Note that cairo will still respect the
corresponding fontconfig settings for these options.
* Replace cairo_has_show_glyphs
with cairo_surface_has_show_glyphs
Motivation: This really is a surface-specific interface, and the
convenience function on the cairo_t is not obviously
necessary. An application can easily call:
cairo_surface_has_show_glyphs (cairo_get_target (cr));
as needed.
* Add cairo_text_cluster_flags_t
to cairo_show_text_glyphs
cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs
cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t
Motivation: This flag, (and specifically the
CAIRO_TEXT_CLUSTER_FLAG_BACKWARD value), replaces the
cairo_bool_t backward argument in each of the above
interfaces. This leads to more readable user code, and also
allows future extensibility.
As always, there are no changes to any API from any major cairo
release, (1.0.x, 1.2.x, 1.4.x, 1.6.x). Cairo maintains the same
compatibility promise it always has.
Bug fixes since 1.7.4
---------------------
xlib: Faster bookkeeping (Karl Tomlinson)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453199#c5
PS: Fix gradients with non-constant alpha (Chris Wilson)
Fix deadlock in user-font code (Richard Hughes and Behdad Esfahbod)
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16819
Several other minor fixes.
Snapshot 1.7.4 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
===============================================================
The cairo community is embarrassed to announce availability of the 1.7.4
snapshot of the cairo graphics library. This is a followup release to the
1.7.2 snapshot to ship a tarball that can actually be built. The only
change since 1.7.4 is including the missing header file
cairo-user-font-private.h in the distribution.
Snapshot 1.7.2 (2008-08-11 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
===============================================================
The cairo community is finally ready to announce availability of the 1.7.2
snapshot of the cairo graphics library. This is embarrassingly the first
snapshot in the 1.7 unstable series of cairo, leading to the eventual release
of cairo 1.8, currently planned for late September.
This snapshot comes four months after the 1.6.4 release. We have done a
really bad job on getting development snapshots out this cycle, but
hopefully all the API changes for 1.8 are now finished and the remaining
weeks will be spent on bug-fixing. There is more than 400 commits worth
of changes in this snapshot, and those can use some testing. Read on!
Text, text, and more text!
--------------------------
The dominant theme of this release, and 1.8 in general, is improvements
around cairo text API. Here is a high-level list of changes with text
handling:
User fonts
----------
This is new API allowing the user of cairo API to provide drawings for glyphs
in a font. This is most useful in implementing fonts in non-standard formats,
like SVG fonts and Flash fonts, but can also be used by games and other
applications to draw "funky" fonts. See test/user-font.c and
test/user-font-proxy.c for usage examples. This is based on early work by
Kristian Høgsberg. Thanks Kristian!
show_text_glyphs
----------------
This new API allows the caller of cairo to mark text glyphs with their
original text. The PDF backend implements this new API and latest Pango
master uses it. The result is (when bugs are fixed) that complex text can be
copied out of pangocairo's PDF output correctly and reliably. There are bugs
to fix though. A few poppler bugs, and some more in cairo and pango.
To test show_text_glyph, just grab pango master and this cairo snapshot and
print text in gedit. Open in acroread or evince, select all, copy, paste
in gedit and compare. The Arabic text with diacritic marks is particularly
showing bad. Try with pango/pango-view/HELLO.txt if you are brave
enough. The Indic text is showing improvements, but is still coming out
buggy.
LCD subpixel filtering using FreeType
-------------------------------------
FreeType 2.3.5 added support for various LCD subpixel filtering, and
fontconfig 2.6.0 added support for configuring LCD filter on a font by font
basis. Cairo now relies on FreeType and fontconfig for subpixel filtering.
This work is based on David Turner's original patch to cairo, maintained
and tested by Sylvain Pasche and others. Thanks all!
Toy font face constructor and getter
------------------------------------
Mostly for API completion, but also useful for higher level (like Pango) to
hook into what the user has set using cairo_select_font_face(), making that
toy API a bit more useful.
FreeType: respecting FC_FT_FACE
-------------------------------
Previously it was impossible to instruct cairo to do emboldening on a font
face object created from an FT_Face. Cairo now respects and uses the
FC_FT_FACE fontconfig pattern element, so emboldening can be achieved by
using cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_pattern() and a carefully crafted pattern
using FC_FT_FACE and FC_EMBOLDEN.
PS/PDF: More efficient output
-----------------------------
Adrian Johnson has been busy fixing all kinds of bugs in PS and PDF
backends, as well making them generate much more compact output by avoiding
things like re-emitting the color or linestyle on every drawing operation.
Thanks Adrian!
Xlib: Dithering
---------------
Cairo now does simple dithering when rendering to legacy X servers. This is
mostly visible with 8-bit visuals.
Xlib: Avoid rendering glyphs out of surface bounds
--------------------------------------------------
This seemingly harmless change manifested a bug with OpenOffice.org 3 versions
where OO.o was passing bogus surface extents to cairo, resulting in no text
rendered in OO.o. Please contact your distro's OO.o maintainers if you see
this bug and point them to the following URL:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16209
Xlib: Improved performance with Xrender-less X servers
------------------------------------------------------
Cairo now performs better on remote, Xrender-less X servers by being smarter
about using X core protocol facilities instead of falling back to doing all
rendering on the client side.
Directfb: backend improvements
------------------------------
The directfb backend, though still unsupported, has seen a good deal of
improvements. Thanks Vlad!
Bug fixing and optimizations
----------------------------
Countless bugs have been fixed and optimizations made, many of them thanks to
Chris Wilson. Thanks Chris!
API additions
-------------
cairo_show_text_glyphs
This is a new text rendering API. Being a more advanced version of
cairo_show_glyphs(), it is aimed for use by higher-level text toolkits like
Pango, and enables better text extraction from output generated by backends
like PDF and SVG. The PDF backend already implements it, and the upcoming
Pango release will use it.
To make that API work, a bunch of other additions were made:
cairo_glyph_allocate
cairo_glyph_free
cairo_text_cluster_t
cairo_text_cluster_allocate
cairo_text_cluster_free
cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs
cairo_user_font_face_create
This is the "user" font face constructor, accompanied by a variety of method
signatures, getters, and setters for a callback-based font backend:
CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_USER
cairo_user_scaled_font_init_func_t
cairo_user_scaled_font_render_glyph_func_t
cairo_user_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs_func_t
cairo_user_scaled_font_unicode_to_glyph_func_t
cairo_user_font_face_set_init_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_render_glyph_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_text_to_glyphs_func
cairo_user_font_face_set_unicode_to_glyph_func
cairo_user_font_face_get_init_func
cairo_user_font_face_get_render_glyph_func
cairo_user_font_face_get_text_to_glyphs_func
cairo_user_font_face_get_unicode_to_glyph_func
cairo_scaled_font_text_to_glyphs
We were previously reluctant to provide this function as text-to-glyphs
support in cairo was limited to "toy" font functionality, not really
interesting for real-world text processing. However, with user-fonts
landing, this API is needed to expose full access to how user-fonts
convert text to glyphs. This is expected to be used by text toolkits like
Pango, as well as "proxy" user-font implementations.
cairo_lcd_filter_t
cairo_font_options_set_lcd_filter
cairo_font_options_get_lcd_filter
These add the possibility to choose between various available LCD subpixel
filters. The available filter values are modelled after what FreeType
provides.
cairo_toy_font_face_create
cairo_toy_font_face_get_family
cairo_toy_font_face_get_slant
cairo_toy_font_face_get_weight
These provide access to functionality and settings provided by
cairo_select_font_face().
cairo_scaled_font_get_scale_matrix
cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution
For API completeness.
Various new values for cairo_status_t enum
Known issues:
- Type3 fonts generated by cairo's PDF backend may show up in poppler/Evince
in a different color than expected. This is fixed in poppler master branch.
This mostly affects cairo user fonts. The test case test/user-font.c
demonstrates this.
- User fonts using other fonts in their rendering are currently embedded in
PDF as fallback bitmap glyphs. This will be (hopefully) fixed before 1.8.
The test case test/user-font-proxy.c demonstrates this.
Release 1.6.4 (2008-04-11 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is wildly embarrassed to announce the 1.6.4
release of the cairo graphics library. This release reverts the xlib
locking change introduced in 1.6.4, (and the application crashes that
it caused). The community would be glad to sack its current release
manager and is accepting applications for someone who could do the job
with more discipline.
Revert 'add missing locking in cairo-xlib'
------------------------------------------
This change was introduced in cairo 1.6.2, but also introduced a bug
which causes many cairo-xlib applications to crash, (with a
segmentation fault inside of XSetClipMask). Instead of attempting
another fix for the broken fix, the change in 1.6.2 has been
reverted. The original bug which the change was addressing has been
present since at least cairo 1.4, so it is not expected that leaving
this bug unfixed will cause any new problems for applications moving
from cairo 1.4 to cairo 1.6.
At this point, the code of cairo 1.6.4 differs from cairo 1.6.0 only
in the fix for the PostScript-printer crashes.
Tweak build to avoid linking with g++
-------------------------------------
Cairo 1.6.4 avoids a quirk in automake that was causing the cairo
library to be linked with g++ and linked against libstdc++ even when
only C source files were compiled for the library.
Release 1.6.2 (2008-04-11 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is pleased (but somewhat sheepish) to announce the
1.6.2 release of the cairo graphics library. This is an update to
yesterday's 1.6.0 release with an important fix to prevent cairo's
PostScript output from crashing some printers. This release also
includes a locking fix for cairo's xlib backend to improve thread
safety. There are no changes beyond these two fixes.
Fix for PostScript printer crash
--------------------------------
Adrian Johnson discovered that cairo 1.6.0 was being a bit hard on
PostScript printers, by changing the font matrix very frequently. This
causes some PostScript interpreters to allocate new font objects every
few glyphs, eventually exhausting available resources. The fix
involves leaving translational components of the font matrix as zero,
so that the PostScript interpreter sees an identical font matrix
repeatedly, and can more easily share internal font object resources.
This fix has been tested to resolve the bugs posted here, (for both
Xerox and Dell printers):
Printing some PDFs from evince is crashing our Xerox printer
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15348
Cairo-generated postscript blocks Dell 5100cn
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15445
Add missing locking in cairo-xlib
---------------------------------
Chris Wilson noticed that cairo 1.6.0 was manipulating an internal
cache of GC object within cairo's Xlib backend without proper
locking. The missing locking could cause failures for multi-threaded
applications. He fixed this in 1.6.2 by adding the missing locks.
Release 1.6.0 (2008-04-10 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
The cairo community is quite pleased to announce the 1.6.0 release of
the cairo graphics library. This is a major update to cairo, with new
features and enhanced functionality which maintains compatibility for
applications written using cairo 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0. We recommend that
anybody using a previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.6.0.
The most significant new features in this release are dramatically
improved PDF and PostScript[*] output, support for arbitrary X server
visuals (including PseudoColor), a new Quartz backend, and and a new
"win32 printing" backend. See below for more details on these and
other new features.
New dependency on external pixman library (Thanks, Søren!)
----------------------------------------------------------
As of cairo 1.6, cairo now depends on the pixman library, for which
the latest release can be obtained alongside cairo:
http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz
This library provides all software rendering for cairo, (the
implementation of the image backend as well as any image fallbacks
required for other backends). This is the same code that was
previously included as part of cairo itself, but is now an external
library so that it can be shared by both cairo and by the X server,
(which is where the code originated).
Improved PDF, PostScript, and SVG output (Thanks, Adrian!)
----------------------------------------------------------
Users of the cairo-pdf, cairo-ps, and cairo-svg should see a dramatic
improvement from cairo 1.2/1.4 to 1.6. With this release there are now
almost no operations that will result in unnecessary rasterization in
the PDF and PostScript. Rasterized "image fallbacks" are restricted
only to minimal portions of the document where something is being
drawn with cairo that is beyond the native capabilities of the
document, (this is rare for PDF or SVG, but occurs when blending
translucent objects for PostScript).
This means that the final output will be of higher quality, and will
also be much smaller, and therefore will print more quickly. The
machinery for doing analysis and minimal fallbacks also benefits the
win32-printing surface described below.
In addition to doing less rasterization, the PostScript and PDF output
also has several other improvements to make the output more efficient
and more compatible with specifications.
[*] Note: Just before this release, a bug has been reported that the
PostScript output from cairo can crash some printers, (so far the
following models have been reported as problematic Xerox Workcentre
7228 or 7328 and Dell 5100cn). We will implement a workaround as soon
as we can learn exactly what in cairo's output these printers object
to, (and we could use help from users that have access to misbehaving
printers). This bug is being tracked here:
Printing some PDFs from evince is crashing our Xerox printer
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15348
New support for arbitrary X server visuals (Thanks, Keith and Behdad!)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
As of cairo 1.6, cairo should now work with an arbitrary TrueColor or
8-bit PseudoColor X server visual. Previous versions of cairo did not
support these X servers and refused to draw anything. We're pleased to
announce that this limitation has been lifted and people stuck with
ancient display systems need no longer be stuck with ancient software
just because of cairo.
New, supported Quartz backend for Mac OS X (Thanks, Brian and Vladimir!)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
As of cairo 1.6, the cairo-quartz backend is now marked as "supported"
rather than "experimental" as in previous cairo releases. Its API now
has guarantees of API stability into future cairo releases, and its
output quality is comparable to other backends. There have been
significant improvements to cairo-quartz since 1.4. It now uses many
fewer image fallbacks, (meaning better performance), and has greatly
improved text rendering.
New, "win32 printing" backend (Thanks, Adrian and Vladimir!)
------------------------------------------------------------
A new win32-printing surface has been added with an interface very
similar to the original win32 surface, (both accept an HDC
parameter). But this new surface should only be called with a printing
DC, and will result in all drawing commands being stored into a
meta-surface and emitted after each page is complete. This allows
cairo to analyze the contents, (as it does with PDF, PostScript, and
SVG backends), and to do minimal image-based fallbacks as
necessary. The analysis keeps things as efficient as possible, while
the presence of fallbacks, (when necessary), ensure the consistent,
high-quality output expected from cairo.
Robustness fixes (Thanks, Chris!)
---------------------------------
There has been a tremendous number of improvements to cairo's
robustness. Areas that have been improved include:
* Proper reporting of errors
* Responding correctly to invalid input
* Avoiding integer overflows
* Avoiding memory leaks on error-recovery paths
* Making reference counting thread safe
* Exhaustive testing of memory allocation points
Other fixes (Thanks, everybody!)
--------------------------------
Cairo's internal fixed-point representation has been changed from
16.16 to 24.8. This has a direct impact on applications as it allows
much larger objects to be drawn before internal limits in cairo make
the drawing not work.
The CAIRO_EXTEND_PAD mode is now fully supported by surface
patterns. This mode allows applications to use cairo_rectangle and
cairo_fill to draw scaled images with high-quality bilinear filtering
for the internal of the image, but without any objectionably blurry
edges, (as would happen with the default EXTEND_NONE and cairo_paint).
Rendering with CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_NONE has been fixed to be more
predictable, (previously image rendering and geometry rendering would
be slightly misaligned with respect to each other).
The reference manual at http://cairographics.org/manual now documents
100% of the functions and types in cairo's public API.
API additions
-------------
Several small features have been added to cairo with new API functions:
cairo_format_stride_for_width
Must be called to compute a properly aligned stride value before
calling cairo_image_surface_create_for_data.
cairo_has_current_point
Allows querying if there is a current point defined for the
current path.
cairo_path_extents
Allows querying for path extents, (independent of any fill or
stroke parameters).
cairo_surface_copy_page
cairo_surface_show_page
Allow beginning a new document page without requiring a cairo_t
object.
cairo_ps_surface_restrict_to_level
cairo_ps_get_levels
cairo_ps_level_to_string
cairo_ps_surface_set_eps
Allow controlling the Post PostScript level, (2 or 3), to
target, as well as to generate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS).
cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_cgfont
Create a quartz-specific cairo_font_face_t from a CGFontRef.
cairo_win32_font_face_create_for_logfontw_hfont
Create a win32-specific cairo_font_face from a LOGFONTW and an
HFONT together.
Thanks, Everyone!
-----------------
I've accounted for 32 distinct people with attributed code added to
cairo between 1.4.14 and 1.6.0, (their names are below). That's an
impressive number, but there are certainly dozens more that
contributed with testing, suggestions, clarifying questions, and
encouragement. I'm grateful for the friendships that have developed as
we have worked on cairo together. Thanks to everyone for making this
all so much fun!
Adrian Johnson, Alp Toker, Antoine Azar, Behdad Esfahbod,
Benjamin Otte, Bernardo Innocenti, Bertram Felgenhauer,
Boying Lu, Brian Ewins, Carl Worth, Chris Heath, Chris Wilson,
Claudio Ciccani, Emmanuel Pacaud, Jeff Muizelaar, Jeremy Huddleston,
Jim Meyering, Jinghua Luo, Jody Goldberg, Jonathan Gramain,
Keith Packard, Ken Herron, Kouhei Sutou, Kristian Høgsberg,
Larry Ewing, Martin Ejdestig, Nis Martensen, Peter Weilbacher,
Richard Hult, Shailendra Jain, Søren Sandmann Pedersen,
Vladimir Vukicevic
Snapshot 1.5.20 (2008-04-04 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the tenth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
just two days (and only one working day) after the 1.5.18
snapshot. The quick snapshot is due to two embarrassing bugs (both
affecting cairo-xlib) that had been introduced in the 1.5.18
snapshot. The fixes for these are described below along with a few
other fixes, (which hopefully aren't introducing new bugs this time).
cairo-xlib
----------
Revert fix from 1.5.18 to allow pattern expansion based on the filter
mode. This fix seemed so boring, (the use case it addresses is almost
never used in practice), that it didn't even get mentioned in the
1.5.18 release notes. However, the "fix" happened to break rendering
that is always used resulting in corrupt image rendering in mozilla,
evolution, and probably everything else that uses cairo.
Fix to avoid BadMatch errors in cairo_surface_create_similar. These
were introduced, (inadvertently, of course), as part of the fix in
1.5.18 for creating similar surfaces without the Render
extension. Again, thanks to mozilla, (and Vladimir Vukicevic in
particular), for noticing our mistake.
general
-------
Correctly handle an in-error surface in
cairo_surface_write_to_png. Previously this function would cause an
assertion failure if you gave it a finished surface. Now it cleanly
returns a CAIRO_STATUS_SURFACE_FINISHED result instead.
Avoid potentially infinite wandering through memory inside
_cairo_hull_prev_valid. Thanks to Jonathan Watt for noticing this
problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306649#c21
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix generation of "soft" masks made by drawing to a similar surface
and then calling cairo_mask_surface() with it.
cairo-svg
---------
Fix for code that uses cairo_mask() on an intermediate surface which
is later passed to cairo_mask_surface().
Snapshot 1.5.18 (2008-04-05 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the ninth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
just 4 days after the 1.5.16 snapshot. We had hoped to not need
another snapshot before the final 1.6.0 release, but several critical
bugs were found and fixed in the last few days, so we thought it
important to let people test the fixes with this snapshot. See below
for details.
documentation
-------------
The README now lists necessary dependencies.
Various graphics state defaults are now documented, (source pattern is
opaque black, line width is 2.0, line join is miter, line cap is butt,
miter limit is 10.0, etc.).
general
-------
Several cleanups have been made along many error-path returns,
(carefully propagating up the original error status values, cleaning
up memory leaks during error recovery, etc.). This is yet another in
Chris "ickle" Wilson's long series of error-handling cleanups during
the 1.5 series.
Avoid undesired clipping when drawing scaled surface patterns with
bilinear filtering.
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix emission of 1-bit alpha masks in PDF output.
Fix a bug that would cause glyphs to be misplaced along the Y axis:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23474136
Originally, an issue about a crash, but later leading to the
misplaced glyphs issue being discovered.
cairo-ps
--------
Fix misplaced glyphs in cairo's PostScript output.
This issue occurs when consecutive glyphs are placed far
apart. This case is exercised by the new ft-show-glyphs-table test
case, which was originally inspired by the Debian bug #23474136
mentioned above.
Fix more misplaced glyphs in cairo's PostScript output:
The issue here showed up under very particular circumstance, (when
converting a PDF file with a CFF font with CID Identity-H encoding
and using glyph 0, (defined by the CFF specification as .notdef)
as a space instead). More concretely, this problem appeared when
converting the UbuntuDesktop.pdf file mentioned in this bug
report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15348#c3
As usual with arcane font-encoding-specific bugs like this, many
thanks to Adrian Johnson for his magical ability to dive into
specifications and emerge almost instantaneously with fixes. And
thanks to Sebastien Bacher for bringing the bug to our attention.
cairo-xlib
----------
Fix serious failure on X servers without the Render extension.
Since the 1.5.14 snapshot (with support for PseudoColor visuals),
any application attempting to create a "similar" xlib surface would
fail on an X server without the Render extension. Thanks to
Frederic Crozat for pointing out that cairo's test suite was
entirely failing when run against Xvfb.
Avoid crashing cairo-xlib applications for too-large glyphs
Naively sending glyphs of any size to the X server will eventually
violate the X limit on maximum request sizes. We now properly
detect when a glyph would be too large and use existing fallbacks
to render the glyph rather than trying to send it to the X server.
Enable the buggy_repeat workaround for Xorg servers < 1.4
We have determined that Xorg 1.3.0 (as packaged in Fedora 8 at
least) has a bug that can result in an X server crash when cairo
uses certain X Render repeat operations, (as exercised by cairo's
extend-reflect test). We avoid this crash by using fallbacks
whenever a repeating surface is needed for any Xorg server with a
version less than 1.4. This is slower, but should prevent the
crash.
(Meanwhile, there appears to be a separate bug where some X
servers or specific X-server drivers will use random pixmap data
when asked to draw a repeating surface. The buggy_repeat
workaround would also avoid those problems, but we have not yet
characterized whether the new "version < 1.4" is a good
characterization of those problems or not.)
cairo-quartz-font
-----------------
Implement cairo_font_extents for this backend.
The cairo-quartz-font implementation added in the 1.5.14 snapshot was
entirely missing support for the cairo_font_extents function. Thanks to
Richard Hult for pointing out this obvious shortcoming, (and obvious
lack of coverage in our test suite):
CGFont backend returns 0 font extents
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15319
Snapshot 1.5.16 (2008-04-01 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the eighth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
less than two weeks after the 1.5.14 snapshot and it really is a
legitimate snapshot, (in spite of sharing this date with that of many
bogus announcements). The major change in this snapshot is that the
cairo-quartz backend is now officially "supported", including new API
to construct a font face from a CGFontRef . Also several bug fixes
have been fixed in many backends. See below for details.
general
-------
Cairo now depends on pixman 0.10.0 which was recently released. The
latest pixman release can always be found alongside cairo releases at:
http://cairographics.org/releases
Increase the precision of color stops for gradients. This fixes a
regression in gradient rendering that had been present since the
1.5.12 snapshot.
paginated (all of ps, pdf, svg, and win32-printing)
---------------------------------------------------
Fix assertion failure when some drawing elements are outside the page
boundaries, (this bug was noticed when using Inkscape to print a
drawing with landscape orientation to a portrait-oriented piece of
paper).
cairo-ps
--------
Fix of bug causing incorrect glyph positioning.
Fix handling of CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE.
cairo-pdf
---------
More reduction of unnecessary digits of precision in PDF output.
Fix handling of CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE.
cairo-svg
---------
Fix bug in usage of libpng that was preventing cairo_mask from working
with the svg backend.
Fix transformation of source pattern for cairo_stroke().
cairo-win32-printing
--------------------
Fix fallback resolution, (thanks again to inkscape users/developers
for helping us find this one).
cairo-quartz
------------
Mark the cairo-quartz backend as "supported" rather than
"experimental". This means the following:
* The backend will now be built by default (if possible).
* We are committing that the backend-specific API (as published in
cairo-quartz.h) are stable and will be supported in all future
cairo 1.x releases.
* We are committing that the output quality of this backend
compares favorably with other cairo backends, (and that quality
is ensured by good results from the cairo test suite).
* We recommend that distributions build and distribute this
backend when possible.
Note that the cairo_quartz_image API (in cairo-quartz-image.h) is
still experimental, will not build by default, (pass
--enable-quartz-image to configure to build it), and may see API
changes before it is marked as "supported" in a future release.
Put the CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI name back into
cairo-deprecated.h. Without this, the cairo 1.5.14 snapshot broke all
builds for applications using the C++ cairomm bindings (and perhaps
others) which have the CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI name in their header
files. This breakage happened even for applications not using
cairo-quartz at all.
Note: Even though the CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI name is provided to
avoid this build breakage, we still recommend that bindings and
applications move to the new, and more accurate,
CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_QUARTZ name.
Replace the implementation of cairo-quartz-font to use CFFont instead
of ATSUI. The CGFont API is a better fit than ATSUI, and this new
implementation is also more correct than the old one as well.
This also adds the following new API call:
cairo_public cairo_font_face_t *
cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_cgfont (CGFontRef font);
The previous cairo_quartz_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id function
continues to exist and is part of the supported API going
forward. (However, the old name of that same function, which was
cairo_atsui_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id is officially
deprecated. Any source code using the old name should be updated to
use the new name.)
Fix transformation of source pattern for cairo_stroke().
cairo-win32
-----------
Avoid crash in create_similar is cairo_win32_surface_create fails.
Snapshot 1.5.14 (2008-03-20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the seventh snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
3 weeks after the 1.5.12 snapshot. This snapshot includes support for
arbitrary X server visuals, (including PseudoColor), which was the
final remaining cairo-specific item on the cairo 1.6 roadmap. It also
includes a huge number of improvements to the cairo-quartz backend. So
this is effectively a cairo 1.6 release candidate. We expect very few
changes from now until 1.6 and only for specific bug fixes.
API Change
----------
Rename ATSUI font backend to Quartz font backend. This affects the
following usage:
--enable-atsui -> --enable-quartz-font
CAIRO_HAS_ATSUI_FONT -> CAIRO_HAS_QUARTZ_FONT
CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI -> CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_QUARTZ
cairo_atsui_font_face_create_for_atsu_font_id ->
cairo_quartz_font_font_create_for_atsu_font_id
This API change is justified by the cairo-quartz backend still be
marked as "experimental" rather than "supported", (though this is one
step toward making the change to "supported" before 1.6). Cairo will
still provide ABI compatibility with the old symbol name, however.
paginated (all of ps, pdf, svg, and win32-printing)
---------------------------------------------------
Optimize by not analyzing an image surface for transparency more than
once, (previously all images were analyzed twice).
cairo-ps and cairo-pdf
----------------------
Avoiding emitting a matrix into the stroke output when unnecessary,
(making output size more efficient).
Reduce rounding error of path shapes by factoring large scale factors
out of the path matrix, (ensuring that a fixed-number of printed
digits for path coordinates contains as much information as possible).
Reduce excess digits for text position coordinates. This makes the
output file size much smaller without making the result any less
correct.
cairo-ps
--------
Eliminate bug causing extraneous text repetition on Linux PostScript
output in some cases.
See: Mozilla Bug 419917 – Printed page contents are reflected
inside bordered tables (Linux-only)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419917
Optimize output when EXTEND_PAD is used.
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix to not use fill-stroke operator with transparent fill, (else PDF
output doesn't match the cairo-defined correct result). See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/202096
cairo-svg
---------
Fix stroke of path with a non-solid-color source pattern:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14556
cairo-quartz
------------
Fix text rendering with gradient or image source pattern.
Handling antialiasing correctly for cairo_stroke(), cairo_clip(), and
cairo_show_text()/cairo_show_glyphs().
Correctly handle gradients with non-identity transformations:
Fixes http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14248
Add native implementation of REPEAT and REFLECT extend modes for
gradients.
Fix implementation for the "unbounded" operators, (CAIRO_OPERATOR_OUT,
_IN, _DEST_IN, and _DEST_ATOP).
Correctly handle endiannees in multi-architecture compiles on Mac OS
X.
Avoid behavior which would cause Core Graphics to print warnings to
the console in some cases.
cairo-win32
-----------
Fix handling of miter limit.
cairo-win32-printing
--------------------
Fix to not use a 1bpp temporary surface in some cases while printing,
(so grayscale data is preserved rather than just becoming black and
white).
cairo-xlib
----------
Add support for rendering to arbitrary TrueColor X server
visuals. This fixes at least the following bugs:
cairo doesn't support 8-bit truecolor visuals
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7735
cairo doesn't support 655 xlib format
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9719
Add support for rendering to 8-bit PseudoColor X server visuals. This
fixes the following bug:
Cairo doesn't support 8-bit pseudocolor visuals
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945
Snapshot 1.5.12 (2008-02-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the sixth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 1
week after the 1.5.10 snapshot. This snapshot includes the
long-awaited change from 16.16 to 24.8 fixed-point values, (see below
for why you should care). It also includes several backend-specific
bug fixes.
24.8 fixed-point format
-----------------------
Cairo has always converted path coordinates to a fixed-point
representation very early in its processing. Historically, this has
been a 32-bit representation with 16 bits of integer for the
device-pixel grid and 16 bits of sub-pixel positioning. The choice of
16 bits for the integer coordinate space was based on the 16-bit limit
for X Window drawables.
This 16-bit limit has proven problematic for many applications. It's
an especially vexing problem when targeting non-X backends that don't
have any 16-bit restriction. But even when targeting cairo-xlib, it's
often desirable to draw a large shape, (say a background rectangle),
that extends beyond the surface bounds and expect it to fill the
surface completely, (rather than overflowing and triggering random
behavior).
Meanwhile, nobody has ever really needed 16 bits of sub-pixel
precision.
With this snapshot, the fixed-point system is still in place and is
still using a 32-bit representation, (future versions of cairo might
move entirely to floating-point when targeting PDF output for
example). But the representation now provides 24 bits of pixel
addressing and only 8 bits of sub-pixel positioning. This should give
a much less stifling space to many applications.
However, the underlying pixman library still has 16-bit limitations in
many places, (it has its roots in the X server as well). Until those
are also fixed, applications targeting cairo image surfaces, or
hitting software fallbacks when targeting other surfaces will still
encounter problems with device-space values needing more than 16
integer bits.
generic fixes
-------------
Add a few tests to the test suite to increase coverage.
Cleanup a few error-handling paths, (propagate error correctly).
cairo-ft
--------
Fix handling of font sizes smaller than 1 device pixel.
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix to properly save/restore clip when analyzing meta-surface
patterns, (fixing a couple of test-suite failures).
Implement native support for CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE when the source
pattern is opaque.
Emit rectangles as PDF rectangles ("re" operator) rather than as
general paths.
cairo-ps
--------
Fix to work properly with the 16.16->24.8 change.
cairo-svg
---------
Fix CAIRO_EXTEND_REFLECT by using an image fallback, (there's no
direct SVG support for reflected patterns).
Fix the use of alpha-only masks, (such as CAIRO_FORMAT_A8).
cairo-quartz
------------
Add new API for efficiently using image data as a source:
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_quartz_image_surface_create (cairo_surface_t *image_surface);
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_quartz_image_surface_get_image (cairo_surface_t *surface);
For full documentation, see:
http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Quartz-Surfaces.html#cairo-quartz-image-surface-create
Several fixes for cairo_mask().
cairo-atsui
-----------
Change default from from Monaco to Helvetica to be more consistent
with other font backends.
Snapshot 1.5.10 (2008-02-20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the fifth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 3
weeks after the 1.5.8 snapshot. This snapshot adds one new API
function, (cairo_has_current_point), and the usual mix of
improvements, (more efficient PostScript/PDF output, optimized
stroking), and fixes (more robust error-handling, etc.). See below for
details.
New API
-------
Add a new function to query if there is a current point:
cairo_bool_t
cairo_has_current_point (cairo_t *cr);
There is no current point immediately after cairo_create(), nor after
cairo_new_path() or cairo_new_sub_path(). There is a current point
after any of the path-creation functions, (cairo_move_to,
cairo_line_to, cairo_curve_to, etc.).
With this new function, we also revert the change of the return type
of cairo_get_current_point from cairo 1.5.8, (it's now a void function
again).
Optimizations
-------------
Optimize stroking code to avoid repeated calculation of redundant
values, (particularly significant for very large, offscreen paths).
General fixes
-------------
Patch a few more potential buffer overruns, (due to integer
overflow).
Many fixes and improvements to cairo's error-handling, (ensure that
correct error values are returned, clean up memory leaks on
error-handling paths, etc.).
Fix a potential infinite loop when stroking a spline with a pen that
has been transformed to a line segment.
Remove treating NULL as a synonym for a valid cairo_font_options_t*
with default values, (a change that had been introduced as of cairo
1.5.8).
Remove the altered handling of tolerance and fallback-resolution that
had been introduced as of cairo 1.5.4.
cairo-xlib
----------
Pass the original Drawable, (as opposed to the root window), to
XCreatePixmap when creating a similar surface. This gives the X server
more information so that it can be clever and efficient.
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix the rendering of repeating and reflecting patterns.
Ensure miter limit is always >= 1, (smaller limits are not meaningful,
but they can cause some PDF viewers to fail to display pages).
Generate more efficient output when the same path is used for both
fill and stroke.
cairo-ps
--------
Start sharing much of the cairo-pdf code rather than implementing very
similar code in cairo-ps.
Implement native support for repeating and reflecting linear
gradients.
Implement reflected surface patterns.
Ensure miter limit is always >= 1, (smaller limits are not meaningful,
but they can cause some PostScript viewers to crash).
Generate PostScript that will perform more efficiently and use less
memory on printers, (use currentfile instead of a giant string array
for image data, and avoid using PostScript patterns for paint() and
fill() when possible).
cairo-svg
---------
Avoid unnecessary rasterization when copying a "similar" surface to
another svg surface, (allow the SOURCE operator to be implemented with
all-vector operations if there are no underlying objects).
cairo-atsui
-----------
Eliminate infinite loop when attempting to render an empty string.
Snapshot 1.5.8 (2008-01-30 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the fourth snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 2
weeks after the 1.5.6 snapshot. It adds a few new API functions. Most
notably all callers of cairo_image_surface_create_for_data should now
be calling cairo_format_stride_for_width to compute a legal stride
value. See below for more details.
New API in cairo 1.5.8
----------------------
We've added a new function that should be called to compute a legal
stride value before allocating data to be used with
cairo_image_surface_create_for_data:
int
cairo_format_stride_for_width (cairo_format_t format,
int width);
We've also added a new cairo_path_extents function that can be used to
compute a bounding box for geometry such as a single line segment,
(contrast with cairo_path_extents and cairo_stroke_extents):
void
cairo_path_extents (cairo_t *cr,
double *x1, double *y1,
double *x2, double *y2);
And finally, we've added a function to allow for querying the
XRenderPictFormat of a cairo-xlib surface:
XRenderPictFormat *
cairo_xlib_surface_get_xrender_format (cairo_surface_t *surface);
API changes
-----------
Fix return types of cairo_surface_show_page and
cairo_surface_copy_page. This is an API change to functions that are
new in the 1.5 series, so not an API break compared to any stable
cairo release, (1.0.x, 1.2.x, 1.4.x).
Change the return type of cairo_get_current_point() from void to
cairo_status_t. This allows the caller to receive a
CAIRO_STATUS_NO_CURRENT_POINT value to distinguish the a current point
at the origin from no current point existing.
Performance improvement
-----------------------
Improve performance of clipping by using an optimized code path
internally, (with the ADD operator instead of IN).
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix various cairo_*_extents functions to initialize the return-value
variables even in the case of a cairo_t in error.
Treat NULL as a legitimate value for cairo_font_options_t*. [NOTE:
On discussion afterwards, we decided against this change so it has
been removed as of cairo 1.5.10.]
Fix rendering with CAIRO_ANTIALIAS_NONE to be more predictable, (that
is, to avoid seams appearing when geometry and imagery share an
identical edge). Portions of this fix are in the pixman library and
will appear in a future release of that library.
Avoid triggering an error for a font size of 0.
Miscellaneous changes
---------------------
Require pixman >= 0.9.6.
There has been a tremendous amount improvement to cairo's
documentation. We're delighted that 100% of the public API has at
least some documentation in the API reference manual. Many thanks to
Behdad Esfahbod and Nis Martensen for leading this effort.
cairo-pdf and cairo-ps
----------------------
Eliminate failure when a Type 1 font is embedded with an explicit
glyph 0.
cairo-pdf
---------
Implement a more correct and more efficient approach for patterns with
an extend mode of CAIRO_EXTEND_REFLECT.
cairo-ps
--------
Fix image masks to properly pack and pad mask bits.
cairo-quartz
------------
Take care to only use DrawTiledImage for integer-aligned images, (and
use slower paths to get the correct result in other cases).
cairo-win32
-----------
Fix for older versions of mingw.
Improve the handling of the clipping with the win32 and win32-printing
surfaces.
Fix rendering of non black/white text.
Snapshot 1.5.6 (2008-01-15 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the third snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
about 6 weeks after the 1.5.4 snapshot. The only API addition compared
to 1.5.4 is very minor, (a new value CAIRO_STATUS_TEMP_FILE_ERROR).
The remainder of the changes are the usual accumulation of bug fixes
and improvements. See below for details.
General bug fixes
-----------------
Fix handling of fonts that contain a mixture of outline and bitmapped
glyphs. There was a change in this handling in 1.5.4 that improved
some cases and also regressed other cases. Now, all cases should be
handled quite well.
Fix alignment issues that were causing SIGBUS failures on SPARC.
Fix a regression (which first appeared in 1.5.2) where stroking under
a large scale would sometimes incorrectly replace a miter join with a
bevel join. (Thanks to Keith Packard.)
Fix reporting of zero-sized extents to be {0,0} rather than
{INT_MAX,INT_MIN}. This avoids several integer overflow and
allocations of massive regions in some cases.
Fix failures of gradients with no stops, (quartz, ps, and pdf).
Fix handling of Type 1 fonts on Windows platforms.
Fix handling of Type 1 fonts with no specific family name in the font
itself, (generate a CairoFont-x-y name).
Handle NULL string values in cairo_show_text, cairo_show_glyphs, and
friends.
Many robustness improvements along error-handling paths, (thanks as
always, to Chris "ickle" Wilson).
Various other minor fixes.
Paginated backends (PDF/PostScript/win32-printing)
--------------------------------------------------
Avoid unnecessary rasterization when using a paginated surface as a
source, (such as drawing from one pdf surface to another).
Fix replaying of paginated surface with more than one level of push/pop
group.
cairo-xlib
----------
Fix xlib backend to not consider recent X server release as having a
buggy repeat implementation in the Render extension.
cairo-pdf
---------
Fix PDF output to avoid triggering very slow rendering in PDF viewers,
(avoid starting and stopping the content stream for each pattern
emission).
Support CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE in cases where there is nothing below
the object being drawn.
Fix to avoid seams appearing between multiple fallback regions.
cairo-ps (PostScript)
---------------------
Use correct bounding box in Type 3 fonts.
Fix several bugs in cairo's PostScript output. These include making
the PostScript output more compatible with recent versions of
ghostscript that are more strict about Type 3 fonts, for
example.
Fix for win32 to not attempt to create temporary files in the root
directory, (where the user may not have write permission).
Avoid generating Level 3 PostScript if Level 2 is sufficient. Also,
add code in output documents to alert the user if Level 3 PostScript
is handed to a device that cannot handle PostScript beyond Level
2.
cairo-directfb
--------------
Various performance optimizations.
Fixed support for small surfaces (less than 8x8).
Provide support for environment variables CAIRO_DIRECTFB_NO_ACCEL to
disable acceleration and CAIRO_DIRECTFB_ARGB_FONT to enable ARGB fonts
instead of A8.
cairo-os2
---------
Allow OS/2 APIs instead of C library allocation functions.
Snapshot 1.5.4 (2007-12-05 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the second snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes
just over 1 month after the 1.5.2 snapshot. There are no API changes
or additions in 1.5.4 compared to 1.5.2, but there are several bug
fixes, and some optimizations. Most of these apply to particular
backends. See below for details.
General improvements
--------------------
Use less memory for spline approximation calculations.
Change how the tolerance value is interpreted with regard to
fallback-resolution. [Note: On further discussion, we decided against
this change for now. It is removed as of cairo 1.5.10.]
Fix precision of floating-point values in vector-output backends to
avoid rounding errors with very small numbers.
Xlib improvements
-----------------
Fix bug in glyph rendering with xlib, (due to everything being clipped
out). This was a regression in the 1.5.2 snapshot that was visible in
the GIMP, for example. See:
cairo 1.5.2 causes font problems in GIMP 2.4 status bar and evolution 2.12.1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13084
PostScript improvements
-----------------------
Fix bug leading to invalid PostScript files when rendering
text, (need "0 0 xyshow" instead of "0 xyshow").
Fix many issues with Type 3 fonts, including making the resulting text
extractable.
Quartz improvements
-------------------
Fix font metrics height value for ATSUI, (helps webkit on GTK+ OS X
layout nicely).
Fix gradients.
Fix EXTEND_NONE mode for patterns.
Fix cairo_quartz_surface_create to properly clear the new surface
in cairo_quartz_surface_create.
Fix to correctly handle 0x0 sized surfaces.
Optimize drawing of EXTEND_REPEAT patterns for OS X 10.5.
Snapshot 1.5.2 (2007-10-30 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the first snapshot in cairo's unstable 1.5 series. It comes 4
months after the 1.4.10 release. This snapshot includes significant
improvements to PDF and PostScript output, which is one of the things
in which we're most interested in getting feedback. There are a couple
of minor API additions, and several optimizations, (primarily in the
"print/vector" backends). And there are dozens of bug fixes and
robustness improvements.
New dependency on external pixman library
-----------------------------------------
A significant change in this snapshot compared to all previous cairo
releases is that cairo now depends on an external "pixman" library for
its software rendering. Previously this same code was compiled
internally as part of cairo, but now the code is separate so that both
cairo and the X server can now share common code, (thanks very much to
Søren Sandmann for his work on separating pixman and maintaining it).
So users will need to acquire and build pixman before being able to
build cairo. The current release is 0.9.6 and can be obtained from
here:
http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz
which can be verified with:
http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz.sha1
66f01a682c64403a3d7a855ba5aa609ed93bcb9e pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz
http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.9.6.tar.gz.sha1.asc
(signed by Carl Worth)
Major PDF/PostScript improvements
---------------------------------
Adrian Johnson has done some long-awaited work to make cairo's PDF and
PostScript output more interesting than ever before. First, many
operations that previously triggered image fallbacks will now be
rendered as native vectors. These operations include:
PDF: cairo_push_group, cairo_surface_create_similar,
cairo_mask, A8/A1 surface sources, repeating/reflecting linear
gradients.
PostScript: cairo_push_group, cairo_surface_create_similar,
gradients, bilevel alpha masks, (for example, all values either 0 or
255 for an A8 mask).
Not only that, but when an image fallback is required, it will now be
limited to only the necessary region. For example, a tiny translucent
image overlaying a small portion of text would previously caused an
entire PostScript page to be rendered as a giant image. Now, the
majority of that page will be nice text, and there will only be a tiny
image in the output.
Additionally, the PostScript output now carefully encodes text so that
if it is subsequently converted to PDF, the text will be
selectable.
This is very exciting progress, and we're hoping to hear from users
during the 1.5 series about how things have improved, (for example,
inkscape users doing cairo-based PDF export: please let us know how
things look). And feel free to pass your thanks along to Adrian for his excellent work.
NOTE: This much improved PDF output makes more sophisticated use of
functionality in the PDF specification. This means that cairo's output
will sometimes expose bugs in some free software PDF viewers, (evince,
poppler, and xpdf, for example), that are not yet ready for such PDF
files. We're working with the poppler maintainers to get these bugs
fixed as quickly as possible. In the meantime, please double-check
with other PDF viewers if cairo-generated PDF files are not being
rendered correctly. It may be due to a bug in the viewer rather than
in the PDF file that cairo has created.
Robustness improvements
-----------------------
Chris Wilson has made the largest contribution by far to cairo 1.5.2,
(in number of commits). His more than 150 commits include a huge
number of fixes to increase cairo's robustness. These fixes make cairo
more robust against invalid and degenerate input, (NaN, empty path,
etc.), against size-0 malloc calls, against memory leaks on
error-recovery paths, and against other failures during error
handling. He also implemented atomic operations to cairo, and used
them to fix cairo's previously non-thread-safe reference counting,
again improving robustness.
Chris has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into writing
analysis tools for this work, and in running those tools and fixing
the problems they report. We're very grateful for this work, and hope
that all cairo users appreciate the more robust implementation that
results from it.
This work is largely thankless, so it might make sense to notice
sometime that cairo has been running quite smoothly for you, and when
you do, send a quick "thank you" off to Chris Wilson, since it
is all definitely running smoother thanks to his work.
New API
-------
There are no major additions to cairo's core API. The only new,
generic functions are:
void
cairo_surface_copy_page (cairo_surface_t *surface);
void
cairo_surface_show_page (cairo_surface_t *surface);
which can now be used much more conveniently than the existing
cairo_copy_page and cairo_show_page functions in some
situations. These functions act identically, but require only a
cairo_surface_t* and not a cairo_t*.
All other API additions are specific to particular backends.
New cairo-win32 API (new font face function and "win32 printing" surface)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is a new function for creating a win32 font face for both a
logfontw and an hfont together. This complements the existing
functions for creating a font face from one or the other:
cairo_font_face_t *
cairo_win32_font_face_create_for_logfontw_hfont (LOGFONTW *logfont,
HFONT font);
There is also a new "win32 printing" surface:
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_win32_printing_surface_create (HDC hdc);
This interface looks identical to the original
cairo_win32_surface_create, (both accept and HDC), but the behavior of
this new surface is very different. It should only be called with a
printing DC, and will result in all drawing commands being stored into
a meta-surface and emitted after each page is complete, with analysis
to do as minimal image-based fallbacks as necessary. The behavior and
implementation shares much with the PDF and PostScript backends.
New cairo-ps API (EPS and PostScript level control)
---------------------------------------------------
An often requested feature has been the ability to generate
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) with cairo. We have that now with the
following very simple API. Just do cairo_ps_surface_create as usual
then call this function with a true value:
void
cairo_ps_surface_set_eps (cairo_surface_t *surface,
cairo_bool_t eps);
[NOTE: As always with snapshots, it's possible---though not very
likely---that the API could still be modified before a final
release. For example, this is the first public cairo function that
accepts a Boolean parameter. I'm generally opposed to Boolean
parameters, but this is probably the one case where I'm willing to
accept one, (namely a "set" function that accepts a single Boolean).]
Also, it is now possible to control what PostScript level to target,
(either level 2 or level 3), with the following new API:
typedef enum _cairo_ps_level {
CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_2,
CAIRO_PS_LEVEL_3
} cairo_ps_level_t;
void
cairo_ps_surface_restrict_to_level (cairo_surface_t *surface,
cairo_ps_level_t level);
void
cairo_ps_get_levels (cairo_ps_level_t const **levels,
int *num_levels);
const char *
cairo_ps_level_to_string (cairo_ps_level_t level);
Improvement for cairo-quartz
----------------------------
Brian Ewins had contributed several improvements to cairo-quartz. These
include an implementation of EXTEND_NONE for linear and radial
gradients, (so this extend mode will no longer trigger image fallbacks
for these gradients), as well as native surface-mask clipping, (only
on OS X 10.4+ where the CGContextClipToMask function is available).
He also fixed a semantic mismatch between cairo and quartz for dashing
with an odd number of entries in the dash array.
We're grateful for Brian since not many quartz-specific improvements
to cairo would be happening without him.
Optimizations
-------------
Optimize SVG output for when the same path is both filled and stroked,
and avoid unnecessary identity matrix in SVG output. (Emmanuel Pacaud).
Optimize PS output to take less space (Ken Herron).
Make PS output more compliant with DSC recommendations (avoid initclip
and copy_page) (Adrian Johnson).
Make PDF output more compact (Adrian Johnson).
Release glyph surfaces after uploading them to the X server, (should
save some memory for many xlib-using cairo application). (Behdad
Esfahbod).
Optimize cairo-win32 to use fewer GDI objects (Vladimir Vukicevic).
win32-printing: Avoid falling back to images when alpha == 255
everywhere. (Adrian Johnson).
win32-printing: Avoid falling back for cairo_push_group and
cairo_surface_create_similar. (Adrian Johnson)
Bug fixes
---------
Avoid potential integer overflows when allocating large buffers
(Vladimir Vukicevic).
Preparations to allow the 16.16 fixed-point format to change to
24.8 (Vladimir Vukicevic).
Fix bugs for unsupported X server visuals (rgb565, rgb555, bgr888, and
abgr8888). (Carl Worth and Vladimir Vukicevic)
Fix bugs in PDF gradients (Adrian Johnson).
Fix cairo-xlib to build without requiring Xrender header
files (Behdad Esfahbod).
Make cairo more resilient in the case of glyphs not being available in
the current font. (Behdad Esfahbod)
Prevent crashes when both atsui and ft font backends are compiled in
(Brian Ewins).
Make font subsetting code more robust against fonts that don't include
optional tables (Adrian Johnson).
Fix CFF subsetting bug, (which manifested by generating PDF files that
Apple's Preview viewer could not read) (Adrian Johnson).
Fixed error handling for quartz and ATSUI backends (Brian Ewins).
Avoid rounding problems by pre-transforming to avoid integer-only
restrictions on transformation in GDI (Adrian Johnson).
Fixed an obscure bug (#7245) computing extents for some stroked
paths (Carl Worth).
Fix crashes due to extreme transformation of the pen, (seems to show
up in many .swf files for some reason) (Carl Worth).
Release 1.4.10 (2007-06-27 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the fifth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes
roughly three weeks after the 1.4.8 release. The most significant
change in this release is a fix to avoid an X error in certain cases,
(that were causing OpenOffice.org to crash in Fedora). There is also a
semantic change to include child window contents when using an xlib
surface as a source, an optimization when drawing many rectangles, and
several minor fixes.
Eliminate X errors that were killing OO.o (Chris Wilson)
--------------------------------------------------------
Cairo is fixed to avoid the X errors propagated when cleaning up
Render Pictures after the application had already destroyed the
Drawable they reference. (It would be nice if the X server wouldn't
complain that some cleanup work is already done, but there you have
it.) This fixes the bug causing OpenOffice.org to crash as described
here:
XError on right click menus in OOo.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243811
Use IncludeInferiors when using xlib surface as a source (Ryan Lortie)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
When an xlib surface is used as the source of a draw operation the
contents of child windows are now included in the source data. The
semantics of drawing to xlib surfaces are unchanged (ie: draws are
still clipped by child windows overlapping the destination window).
Optimize drawing of many rectangles (Vladimir Vukicevic)
--------------------------------------------------------
Avoid O(N*N) loop when filling many axis-aligned rectangles, (either
many rectangles as separate sub-paths or due to dashing).
Miscellaneous fixes
-------------------
Fix cairo-perf on Solaris by linking to librt. (Behdad Esfahbod)
Fix make check for systems that require executable files to have a
particular extension. (Behdad Esfahbod)
Eliminate some warnings in cairo-quartz. (Brian Ewins)
Fix build-breaking typo for cairo-directfb. (Chris Wilson)
Release 1.4.8 (2007-06-07 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the fourth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes just
over five weeks after the 1.4.6 release. This release includes a
thread-safe surface-cache for solid patterns which significantly
improves text rendering with the xlib backend. Also, dozens of error
paths in cairo have been fixed thanks to extensive fault-injection
testing by Chris Wilson.
Surface cache for solid patterns
--------------------------------
Originally written by Jorn Baayen, the introduction of a small cache
for surfaces created for solid patterns improves performance
dramatically. For example, this reduces the volume of X requests
during text rendering to the same level as Xft.
This cache first made its appearance in a 1.3.x snapshot, but was
removed before appearing in any previous major release due to
complications with multi-threaded programs. For example, programs like
evince that would carefully restrict usage of cairo-xlib to a single
thread were unpleasantly surprised to find that using cairo-image in a
separate thread could trigger X requests.
Behdad Esfahbod designed a fix which was implemented by Chris
Wilson. Now, the necessary X requests are queued up until the next
time the application directly operates on an xlib surface.
Improved error handling paths
------------------------------
Chris Wilson continued the excellent work he started in cairo 1.4.4 to
make cairo much more robust against out-of-memory and other errors. He
applied his memory allocation fault injection cairo's main test suite,
(previously he had applied it to cairo's performance suite).
Chris's testing found dozens of bugs which he fixed. Many of these
bugs had perhaps never been hit by any users. But at least one was
hit by the gnome-about program which resulted in dozens of duplicated
bug reports against that program:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431990
We were very pleasantly surprised to see this bug get fixed as a
side-effect of Chris's work. Well done, Chris!
Other fixes
-----------
Cleanup of mutex declarations (Behdad Esfahbod)
Remove unnecessary clip region from SVG output (Emmanuel Pacaud)
Remove Xsun from the buggy_repeat blacklist (Elaine Xiong)
ATSUI: Fix glyph measurement: faster and more correct (Brian Ewins)
Quartz: fixed 'extend' behaviour for patterns, improved pattern performance,
and a few smaller correctness fixes. (Brian Ewins, Vladimir Vukicevic)
Release 1.4.6 (2007-05-01 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the third update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes a
little less than three weeks since the 1.4.4 release. This release
fixes the broken mutex initialization that made cairo 1.4.4 unusable
on win32, OS/2, and BeOS systems. This