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Release 1.2.6 (2006-11-02 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>)
==============================================================
This is the third bug fix release in the 1.2 series, coming less than
two months after the 1.2.4 release made on August 18.
The 1.2.4 release turned out to be a pretty solid one, except for a crasher
bug when forwarding an X connection where the client and the server have
varying byte orders, eg. from a PPC to an i686. Other than that, various
other small bugs have been fixed.
Various improvements have been made in the testing infrastructure to prevent
false positives, and to make sure the generated cairo shared object behaves as
expected in terms of exported symbols and relocations.
There were a total of 89 changes since 1.2.4. The following list the most
important ones:
Common fixes
------------
- Avoid unsigned loop control variable to eliminate infinite,
memory-scribbling loop. (#7593)
- Fix cairo_image_surface_create to report INVALID_FORMAT errors.
Previously the detected error was being lost and a nil surface was
returned that erroneously reported CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY.
- Change _cairo_color_compute_shorts to not rely on any particular
floating-point epsilon value. (#7497)
- Fix infinite-join test case (bug #8379)
- Pass correct surface to create_similar in _cairo_clip_init_deep_copy().
PS/PDF fixes
------------
- Fix Type 1 embedding in PDF.
- Correct the value of /LastChar in the PDF Type 1 font dictionary.
- Improve error checking in TrueType subsetting.
- Compute right index when looking up left side bearing. (bug #8180)
- Correct an unsigned to signed conversion problem in truetype subsetting
bbox.
- Type1 subsetting: Don't put .notdef in Encoding when there are 256 glyphs.
- Add cairo version to PS header / PDF document info dictionary.
- Set CTM before path construction.
Win32 fixes
-----------
- Get correct unhinted outlines on win32. (bug 7603)
- Make cairo as a win32 static library possible.
- Use CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB24 for BITSPIXEL==32 surfaces too.
Build system fixes
------------------
- Define WINVER if it's not defined. (bug 6456)
- Fix the AMD64 final link by removing SLIM from pixman.
- Misc win32 compilation fixes.
- Add Sun Pro C definition of pixman_private.
- Use pixman_private consistently as prefix not suffix.
- Added three tests check-plt.sh, check-def.sh, and check-header.sh that check
that the shared object, the .def file, and the public headers agree about
the exported symbols.
- Require pkg-config 0.19. (#8686)
Release 1.2.4 (2006-08-18 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the second bug fix release in the 1.2 series, coming less than
two weeks after the 1.2.2 release made on August 8.
The big motivation for a quick release was that there were a log of
build system snags that people ran into with the 1.2.2 release. But,
by the time we got those all done, we found that we had a bunch of
fixes for cairo's rendering as well. So there's a lot of goodness in
here for such a short time period.
Rendering fixes
---------------
Fix image surfaces to not be clipped when used as a source (Vladimir Vukicevic)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=72e25648c4c4bc82ddd938aa4e05887a293f0d8b
Fix a couple of corner cases in dashing degenerate paths (Jeff Muizelaar)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=fbb1758ba8384650157b2bbbc93d161b0c2a05f0
Fix support for type1 fonts on win32 (Adrian Johnson)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=da1019c9138695cb838a54f8b871bbfd0e8996d7
Fix assertion failure when rotating bitmap fonts (Carl Worth)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=0bfa6d4f33b8ddb5dc55bbe419c15df4af856ff9
Fix assertion failure when calling cairo_text_path with bitmap fonts (Carl Worth)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=9878a033531e6b96b5f27e69e10e90dee7440cd9
Fix mis-handling of cairo_close_path in some situations (Tim Rowley, Carl Worth)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=53f74e59faf1af78f2f0741ccf1f23aa5dad4efc
Respect font_matrix translation in _cairo_gstate_glyph_path (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=f183b835b111d23e838889178aa8106ec84663b3
Fix vertical metrics adjustment to work with non-identity shapes (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=b7bc263842a798d657a95e539e1693372448837f
[PS] Set correct ImageMatrix in _cairo_ps_surface_emit_bitmap_glyph_data (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=d47388ad759b0a1a0869655a87d9b5eb6ae2445d
Build system fixes
------------------
Fix xlib detection to prefer pkg-config to avoid false libXt dependency (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=0e78e7144353703cbd28aae6a67cd9ca261f1d68
Fix typos causing win32 build problem with PS,PDF, and SVG backends (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=aea83b908d020e26732753830bb3056e6702a774
Fix configure cache to not use stale results (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=6d0e3260444a2d5b6fb0cb223ac79f1c0e7b3a6e
Fix to not pass unsupported warning options to the compiler (Jens Granseuer)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=97524a8fdb899de1ae4a3e920fb7bda6d76c5571
Fix to allow env. variables such as png_REQUIRES to override configure detection (Jens Granseuer)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=abd16e47d6331bd3811c908e524b4dcb6bd23bf0
Fix test suite to not use an old system cairo when converting svg2png (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=6122cc85c8f71b1ba2df3ab86907768edebe1781
Fix test suite to not require signal.h to be present (Behdad Esfahbod)
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=6f8cf53b1e1ccdbe1ab6a275656b19c6e5120e40
Code cleanups
-------------
Many useful warnings cleanups from sparse, valgrind, and careful eyes
(Kjartan Maraas, Pavel Roskin)
Release 1.2.2 (2006-08-08 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the first bug fix release in the 1.2 series since the original
1.2.0 release made six weeks ago.
There were some very serious bugs in the 1.2.0 release, (see below),
so everybody is encouraged to upgrade from 1.2.0 to 1.2.2. The 1.2.2
release maintains source and binary compatibility with 1.2.0 and does
not make any API additions.
Fix crashes with BGR X servers
------------------------------
With cairo 1.2.0 many people reported problems with all cairo-using
programs, (including all GTK+ programs with GTK+ >= 2.8) immediately
crashing with a complaint about an unsupported image format. This bug
affected X servers that do not provide the Render extension and that
provide a visual with BGR rather than RGB channel order.
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7294
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=9ae66174e774b57f16ad791452ed44efc2770a59
Fix the "disappearing text" bug
-------------------------------
With cairo 1.2.0 many people reported that text would disappear from
applications, sometimes reappearing with mouse motion or
selection. The text would disappear after the first space in a string
of text. This bug was caused by an underlying bug in (very common) X
servers, and only affected text rendered without antialiasing, (either
a bitmap font or a vector font with antialiasing disabled). The bug
was also exacerbated by a KDE migration bug that caused antialiasing
to be disabled more than desired.
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7494
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=456cdb3058f3b416109a9600167cd8842300ae14
see also:
Xorg: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7681
KDE: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23990
Fix broken image fallback scaling (aka. "broken printing")
----------------------------------------------------------
The various "print" backends, (pdf, ps, and svg), sometimes fallback
to using image-based rendering for some operations. In cairo 1.2.0
these image fallbacks were scaled improperly. Applications using cairo
can influence the resolution of the image fallbacks with
cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution. With the bug, any value other
than 72.0 would lead to incorrect results, (larger values would lead
to increasingly shrunken output).
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7533
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=1feb4291cf7813494355459bb547eec604c54ffb
Fix inadvertent semantic change of font matrix translation (Behdad Esfahbod)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The 1.2.0 release introduced an inadvertent change to how the
translation components of a font matrix are interpreted. In the 1.0
series, font matrix translation could be used to offset the glyph
origin, (though glyph metrics were reported incorrectly in
1.0). However in 1.2.0, the translation was applied to the advance
values between each glyph. The 1.2.0 behavior is fairly useless in
practice, and it was not intentional to introduce a semantic
change. With 1.2.2 we return to the 1.0 semantics, with a much better
implementation that provides correct glyph metrics.
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=84840e6bba6e72aa88fad7a0ee929e8955ba9051
Fix create_similar to preserve fallback resolution and font options (Behdad Esfahbod)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There has been a long-standing issue with cairo_surface_create_similar
such that font options and other settings from the original
destination surface would not be preserved to the intermediate
"similar" surface. This could result in incorrect rendering
(particularly with respect to text hinting/antialiasing) with
fallbacks, for example.
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4106
fixes: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=9fcb3c32c1f16fe6ab913e27eb54d18b7d9a06b0
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=bdb4e1edadb78a2118ff70b28163f8bd4317f1ec
xlib: Fix text performance regression from 1.0 to 1.2.0 (Vladimir Vukicevic)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Several people noticed that upgrading from cairo 1.0 to cairo 1.2.0
caused a significant performance regression when using the xlib
backend. This performance regression was particularly noticeable when
doing lots of text rendering and when using a high-latency connection
to the X server, (such as a remote X server over an ssh
connection). The slowdown was identified and fixed in 1.2.2.
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7514
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=b7191885c88068dad57d68ced69a752d1162b12c
PDF: Eliminate dependency on FreeType library dependency (Adrian Johnson)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
The cairo 1.2 series adds a supported pdf backend to cairo. In cairo
1.2.0 this backend required the freetype library, which was an
undesirable dependency on systems such as win32, (cairo is designed to
always prefer the "native" font system). As of cairo 1.2.2 the
freetype library is not required to use the pdf backend on the win32
platform.
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7538
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=a0989f427be87c60415963dd6822b3c5c3781691
PDF: Fix broken output on amd64 (Adrian Johnson)
------------------------------------------------
report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349826
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=f4b12e497b7ac282b2f6831b8fb68deebc412e60
PS: Fix broken output for truetype fonts > 64k (Adrian Johnson)
---------------------------------------------------------------
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=067d97eb1793a6b0d0dddfbd0b54117844511a94
PDF: Fix so that dashing doesn't get stuck on (Kent Worsnop)
------------------------------------------------------------
Kent notices that with the PDF backend in cairo 1.2.0 as soon as a
stroke was performed with dashing, all subsequent strokes would also
be dashed. There was no way to turn dashing off again.
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=778c4730a86296bf0a71080cf7008d7291792256
Fix memory leaks in failure paths in gradient creation (Alfred Peng)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=db06681b487873788b51a6766894fc619eb8d8f2
Fix memory leak in _cairo_surface_show_glyphs (Chris Wilson)
------------------------------------------------------------
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7766
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=e2fddcccb43d06486d3680a19cfdd5a54963fcbd
Solaris: Add definition of cairo_private for some Sun compilers (Alfred Peng)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341874
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=04757a3aa8deeff3265719ebe01b021638990ec6
Solaris: Change version number of Sun's Xorg server with buggy repeat (Brian Cameron)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7483
fix: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commit;h=e0ad1aa995bcec4246c0b8ab0d5a5a79871ce235
Various memory leak fixes
-------------------------
Fix memory leak in _cairo_surface_show_glyphs (bug 7766)
Fix file handle leak in failure path (bug 7616)
Fix some memory leaks in the test cases.
Fix some memory leaks in font subsetting code used in print backends.
Documentation improvements (Behdad Esfahbod)
--------------------------------------------
Added new documentation for several functions (cairo_show_page,
cairo_copy_page, cairo_in_stroke, cairo_in_fill).
Fixed some syntax errors that were preventing some existing
documentation from being published.
Fixed several minor typographical errors.
Added an index for new symbols in 1.2.
Release 1.2.0 (2006-06-27 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the culmination of the work that has gone on within the 1.1
branch of cairo.
There has been one API addition since the cairo 1.1.10 snapshot:
cairo_xlib_surface_get_width
cairo_xlib_surface_get_height
There's also a new feature without any API change:
Dots can now be drawn by using CAIRO_LINE_CAP_ROUND with
degenerate sub-paths, (cairo_move_to() followed by either
cairo_close_path() or a cairo_line_to() to the same location).
And at least the following bugs have been fixed:
6759 fontconfig option AntiAlias doesn't work in cairo 1.1.2
6955 Some characters aren't displayed when using xlib (cache u...
7268 positive device_offset values don't work as source
* PDF emit_glyph function needs to support bitmapped glyphs
* PS emit_glyph function needs to support bitmapped glyphs
* SVG emit_glyph function needs to support bitmapped glyphs
* PDF: minefield page one is falling back unnecessarily
* PS/PDF: Fix broken placement for vertical glyphs
* PS: Fix to not draw BUTT-capped zero-length dash segments
* Do device offset before float->fixed conversion
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332266
* PS: Fix source surfaces with transformations
* PS: Fix to not draw BUTT-capped degnerate sub-paths
* PS: Don't walk off end of array when printing "~>"
* Fix some memory leaks in the test suite rig
* SVG: Fix memory leak when using cairo_mask
* Fix EXTEND_REFLECT and EXTEND_PAD to not crash (though these are
still not yet fully implemented for surface patterns).
This has been a tremendous effort by everyone, and I'm proud to have
been a part of it. Congratulations to all contributors to cairo!
Snapshot 1.1.10 (2006-06-16 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
This is the fifth in a series of snapshots working toward the 1.2
release of cairo.
The primary motivation for this snapshot is to fix a long-standing bug
that had long been silent, but as of the 1.1.8 snapshot started
causing crashes when run against 16-bit depth X servers, (often Xvnc
or Xnest). The fix for this adds a new CAIRO_FORMAT_RGB16_565 to the
API.
This snapshot also includes a rewrite of cairo's SVG backend to
eliminate the dependency on libxml2. With this in place, cairo 1.2
will not depend on any libraries that cairo 1.0 did not.
As usual, there are also a few fixes for minor bugs.
Snapshot 1.1.8 (2006-06-14 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the fourth in a series of snapshots working toward the 1.2
release of cairo. At this point, all major features of the 1.2 release
are in place, leaving just a few bug fixes left.
In particular, there well be no additional API changes between this
1.1.8 snapshot and the 1.2 release.
The announcement for 1.1.6 mentioned several API changes being
considered. Only one of these changes was actually implemented
(set_dpi -> fallback_resolution). This change does introduce one
source-level incompatibility with respect to previous 1.1.x snapshots,
so see below for details.
Here is an abbreviated summary of changes since the 1.1.6 snapshot:
** API Change **
----------------
According to the plan mentioned in the 1.1.6 notes, one source-level
incompatible change has been implemented. The following three
functions have been removed from cairo's API:
cairo_pdf_surface_set_dpi
cairo_ps_surface_set_dpi
cairo_svg_surface_set_dpi
and in their place the following function has been added:
cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution
The signature and semantics of the function remains the same, so it is
a simple matter of changing the name of the function when calling
it. As a transition mechanism, this snapshot will (on many systems)
build to include the old symbols so that code previously compiled will
still run. However, all source code using the old names must be
updated before it will compile. And the upcoming 1.2 release is not
anticipated to include the old symbols.
Finally, it should be pointed out that the old symbols never existed
in the supported API of any stable release of cairo. (In the stable
1.0 releases the PDF, PS, and SVG backends were advertised as
experimental and unstable.)
And, as always, cairo continues to maintain source and binary
compatibility between major releases. So applications compiled against
supported backends in a stable release of cairo (1.0.4 say) will
continue to compile and run without modification against new major
releases (1.2.0 say) without modification.
API additions
-------------
The following new functions have been added to cairo's API:
cairo_surface_get_content
cairo_debug_reset_static_data
cairo_image_surface_get_data
cairo_image_surface_get_format
cairo_image_surface_get_stride
cairo_win32_font_face_create_for_hfont
New, backend-specific pkg-config files
--------------------------------------
In addition to the original cairo.pc file, cairo will also now install
a pkg-config files for each configured backend, (for example
cairo-pdf.pc, cairo-svg.pc, cairo-xlib.pc, cairo-win32.pc, etc.) this
also includes optional font backends (such as cairo-ft.pc) and the
optional png functionality (cairo-png.pc).
These new pkg-config files should be very convenient for allowing
cairo-using code to easily check for the existing of optional
functionality in cairo without having to write complex rules to grub
through cairo header files or the compiled library looking for
symbols.
Printing backend (PS, PDF, and SVG)
-----------------------------------
Improving the quality of the "printing" backends has been a priority
of the development between cairo 1.1.6 and cairo 1.1.8.
The big improvement here is in the area of text output. Previously, at
best, text was output as paths without taking advantage of any font
support available in the output file format.
Now, at the minimum text paths will be shared by using type3 fonts
(for PS and PDF---and similarly, defs for SVG). Also, if possible,
type3 and truetype fonts will be embedded in PostScript and PDF
output. There are still some known bugs with this, (for example,
selecting text in a cairo-generated PDF file with an embedded truetype
font does not work). So there will be some more changes in this area
before cairo 1.2, but do try test this feature out as it exists so
far.
Many thanks to Kristian Høgsberg for the truetype and type1 font
embedding.
win32 backend
-------------
Performance improvements by preferring GDI over pixman rendering when possible.
Fixes for text rendering.
xlib backend
------------
Fix potentially big performance bug by making xlib's create_similar
try harder to create a pixmap of a depth matching that of the screen.
Bug fixes
---------
Among various other fixes, the following bugs listed in bugzilla have
been fixed:
Bug 2488: Patch to fix pixman samping location bug (#2488).
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2488
Bug 4196: undef MIN an MAX before defining to avoid duplicate definition
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4196
Bug 4723: configure.in: Fix m4 quoting when examining pkg-config version
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4723
Bug 4882: Flag Sun's X server has having buggy_repeat.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4882
Bug 5306: test/pdf2png: Add missing include of stdio.h
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5306
Bug 7075: Fix make clean to remove cairo.def
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7075
(Many thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for helping us track down and fix many
of these.)
Snapshot 1.1.6 (2006-05-04 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the third in a series of snapshots working toward the imminent
1.2 release of cairo. For a list of items still needing work on the
cairo 1.2 roadmap, please see:
http://cairographics.org/ROADMAP
As can be seen in that list, there are no longer any API additions
left on the roadmap. Instead, there is a feature (PDF type 3 fonts) a
performance optimization (X server gradients) and a list of bug
fixes. This gives us a fair amount of freedom to cut the 1.2 release
at almost any point by deciding to defer remaining bug fixes to
subsequent maintenance releases such as 1.2.2 and 1.2.4.
Before we will do that, we must first be wiling to commit to all the
new API additions. As a heads-up, there are a couple of potential API
changes being considered. (Note that these are changes to new API
introduced during 1.1 so these will not introduce API
incompatibilities compared to the stable 1.0 series). The changes
being considered are:
cairo_get_group_target: may acquire x and y offset return
parameters. May also be eliminated in favor of
cairo_get_target assuming its role
cairo_pdf_surface_set_dpi:
cairo_ps_surface_set_dpi:
cairo_svg_surface_set_dpi: These functions may be removed in favor
of a new cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution
Additionally there is the possibility of a slight change in the
semantics of cairo_set_line_width. We believe the current behavior of the sequence:
cairo_set_line_width; ... change CTM ...; cairo_stroke;
is buggy. It is currently behaving the same as:
... change CTM ...; cairo_set_line_width; cairo_stroke;
We are considering fixing this bug before 1.2 with the hope that
nobody is already relying on the buggy behavior described here. Do
shout if you suspect you might be in that position.
The items included in this snapshot (since the 1.1.4 snapshot) are
described below.
API additions
-------------
The long-awaited group-rendering support is now available with the
following function calls:
cairo_push_group
cairo_push_group_with_content
cairo_pop_group
cairo_pop_group_to_source
cairo_get_group_target
This API provides a much more convenient mechanism for doing rendering
to an intermediate surface without the need to manually create a
temporary cairo_surface_t and a temporary cairo_t and clean them up
afterwards.
Add the following missing get function to complement
cairo_surface_set_device_offset:
cairo_surface_get_device_offset
PDF backend (API addition)
--------------------------
The PDF backend now provides for per-page size changes, (similar to
what the PostScript backend got in the 1.1.4 snapshot). The new API
is:
cairo_pdf_surface_set_size
Xlib backend (API additions)
----------------------------
The following functions have been added to allow the extraction of
Xlib surface:
cairo_xlib_surface_get_display
cairo_xlib_surface_get_drawable
cairo_xlib_surface_get_screen
cairo_xlib_surface_get_visual
cairo_xlib_surface_get_depth
XCB backend (experimental)
--------------------------
Update backend so that it now compiles with the recent XCB 0.9 release.
Bug fixes and memory leak cleanup
---------------------------------
Various little things, nothing too significant though.
Snapshot 1.1.4 (2006-05-03 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the second in a series of snapshots working toward the
upcoming 1.2 release of cairo. For a list of items still needing work
on the cairo 1.2 roadmap, please see:
http://cairographics.org/ROADMAP
The items included in this snapshot (since the 1.1.2 snapshot) are
described below.
PostScript backend: new printing-oriented API
---------------------------------------------
We anticipate that with cairo 1.2, toolkits will begin to use cairo
for printing on systems that use PostScript as the spool format. To
support this use case, we have added 4 new function calls that are
specific to the PostScript backend:
cairo_ps_surface_set_size
cairo_ps_surface_dsc_comment
cairo_ps_surface_dsc_begin_setup
cairo_ps_surface_dsc_begin_page_setup
These functions allow variation of the page size/orientation from one
page to the next in the PostScript output. They also allow the toolkit
to provide per-document and per-page printer control options in a
device-independent way, (for example, by using PPD options and
emitting them as DSC comments into the PostScript output). This should
allow toolkits to provide very fine-grained control of many options
available in printers, (media size, media type, tray selection, etc.).
SVG backend: builds by default, version control
-----------------------------------------------
The SVG backend continues to see major improvements. It is expected
that the SVG backend will be a supported backend in the 1.2
release. This backend will now be built by default if its dependencies
(freetype and libxml2) are met.
Additionally, the SVG backend now has flexibility with regard to what
version of SVG it targets. It will target SVG 1.1 by default, which
will require image fallbacks for some of the "fancier" cairo
compositing operators. Or with the following new function calls:
cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version
cairo_svg_get_versions
cairo_svg_version_to_string
it can be made to target SVG 1.2 in which there is native support for
these compositing operators.
Bug fixes
---------
At least the following bugs have been fixed since the 1.1.2 snapshot:
crash at XRenderAddGlyphs
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4705
Can't build cairo-1.1.2 on opensolaris due to " void function cannot return value"
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6792
Missing out-of-memory check at gfx/cairo/cairo/src/cairo-atsui-font.c:185
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336129
A couple of memory leaks.
Snapshot 1.1.2 (2006-04-25 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is the first in a series of snapshots working toward the upcoming
1.2 release of cairo. (Subsequent snapshot will use successive even
numbers for the third digit, 1.1.4, 1.1.6, etc.) This snapshot is
backwards-compatible with the 1.0 series---it makes a few API
additions but does not remove any API.
PostScript and PDF backends are no longer "experimental"
--------------------------------------------------------
The major theme of the 1.2 release is improved PostScript and PDF
backends for cairo. Unlike the 1.0 series, in the 1.2 series these
backends will not be marked as experimental and will be enabled by
default. We encourage people to test this snapshot and the PS/PDF
backends in particular as much as possible.
The PostScript and PDF output is not yet ideal.
* One major problem with the PostScript output is that image
fallbacks are used more often than strictly necessary, and the
image fallbacks are at a lower resolution than desired, (the
cairo_ps_surface_set_dpi call is ignored).
* The major drawback of the current PDF backend implementation is
its text support. Every glyph is represented by a filled path in
the PDF file. The causes file sizes to be much larger and
rendering to be much slower than desired.
It is anticipated that both of these shortcomings will see some
improvements before the final 1.2 release.
In spite of those shortcomings, we hope that the PS and PDF backends
will yield faithful results for pretty much any cairo operations you
can throw at them. Please let us know if you are getting obviously
"different" results from the PS/PDF backends than from the image or
xlib backends.
Other new experimental backends
-------------------------------
This snapshot includes three new backends that did not exist in the
1.0 series:
* beos backend
* directfb backend
* svg backend
These are all currently marked "experimental" and are disabled by
default. But the SVG backend in particular has seen a lot of recent
development and is very close to passing the entire cairo test
suite. It is possible that this backend will become a fully supported
backend by the time of the cairo 1.2 release.
Public API additions
--------------------
There have been a few new API functions added to cairo, including:
New get_type functions for querying sub-types of object:
cairo_surface_get_type
cairo_pattern_get_type
cairo_font_face_get_type
cairo_scaled_font_get_type
More convenience in working with cairo_scaled_font_t with new getter
functions:
cairo_scaled_font_get_font_face
cairo_scaled_font_get_font_matrix
cairo_scaled_font_get_ctm
cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options
As well as a convenience function for setting a scaled font into a
cairo context:
cairo_set_scaled_font
and a function to allow text extents to be queried directly from a
scaled font, (without requiring a cairo_surface_t or a cairo_t):
cairo_scaled_font_text_extents
These new scaled font functions were motivated by the needs of the
pango library.
Finally, a new path-construction function was added which clears the
current point in preparation for a new sub path. This makes cairo_arc
easier to use in some situations:
cairo_new_sub_path
Before the 1.2 release is final we do still plan a few more API
additions specifically motivated by the needs of Mozilla/Firefox.
Optimizations and bug fixes
---------------------------
Shortly after the 1.0 maintenance series branched off the mainline
there was a major rework of the cairo font internals. This should
provide some good performance benefits, but it's also another area
people should look at closely for potential regressions.
There has not yet been any widespread, systematic optimization of
cairo, but various performance improvements have been made, (and some
of them are fairly significant). So if some things seem faster than
1.0 then things are good. If there are any performance regressions
compared to 1.0 then there is a real problem and we would like to hear
about that.
There has been a huge number of bug fixes---too many to mention in
detail. Again, things should be better, and never worse compared to
1.0. Please let us know if your testing shows otherwise.
Release 1.0.2 (2005-10-03 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
For each bug number XXXX below, see:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXX
for more details.
General bug fixes
-----------------
* 4408 - Add support for dashing of stroked curves
(Carl Worth)
* 4409 - Fix dashing so that each dash is capped on both ends
(Carl Worth)
* 4414 - Prevent SIGILL failures (proper use of -mmmx and -msse flags)
(Sebastien Bacher, Billy Biggs)
* 4299 - Fix crashes with text display in multi-threaded program
(Alexey Shabalin, Carl Worth)
* 4401 - Do not use sincos function since it is buggy on some platforms)
(Tim Mooney, Carl Worth)
* 4245 - Fix several bugs in the test suite exposed by amd64 systems
(Seemant Kulleen, Carl Worth)
* 4321 - Add missing byteswapping on GetImage/PutImage
(Sjoerd Simons, Owen Taylor)
* 4220 - Make the check for rectangular trapezoids simpler and more accurate
(Richard Stellingwerff, Owen Taylor)
* 4260 - Add missing channel-order swapping for antialised fonts
(Barbie LeVile, Owen Taylor)
* 4283 - Fix compilation failure with aggressive inlining (gcc -O3)
(Marco Manfredini, Owen Taylor)
* 4208 - Fix some warnings from sparse
(Kjartan Maraas, Billy Biggs)
* 4269 - Fix to not crash when compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer
(Ronald Wahl, Owen Taylor)
* 4263 - Improve performance for vertical gradients
(Richard Stellingwerff, Owen Taylor)
* 4231
* 4298 - Accomodate gentoo and Mandriva versions in X server vendor string check
(Billy Biggs, Frederic Crozat, Owen Taylor)
win32-specific fixes
--------------------
* 4599 - Fix "missing wedges" on some stroked paths (win32)
(Tim Rowley, Jonathan Watt, Bertram Felgenhauer, Carl Worth, Keith Packard)
* 4612 - Fix disappearing text if first character out of surface (win32)
(Tim Rowley)
* 4602 - Fix shutdown of cairo from failing intermediate, size-0 bitmaps (win32)
Aka. the "white rectangles" bug from mozilla-svg testing
(Tim Rowley)
* Various portability improvements for win32
(Hans Breuer, Owen Taylor, Carl Worth)
* 4593 - Fix font sizes to match user expectations (win32)
(Tor Lillqvist, Owen Taylor)
* 3927 - Fix to report metrics of size 0 for glyph-not-available (win32)
(Hans Breuer, Owen Taylor, Tor Lillqvist)
* Add locking primitives for win32
(Hans Breuer)
xlib-specific fixes
-------------------
* Fix crash from size-0 pixmap due to empty clip region (xlib)
(Radek Doulík, Carl Worth)
Release 1.0.0 (2005-08-24 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
Experimental backends
---------------------
* The Glitz, PS, PDF, Quartz, and XCB backends have been declared
experimental, and are not part of the API guarantees that accompany
this release. They are not built by default, even when the required
libraries are available, and must be enabled explicitly with
--enable-ps, --enable-pdf, --enable-quartz or --enable-xcb.
It is very painful for us to be pushing out a major release without
these backends enabled. There has been a tremendous amount of work
put into each one and all are quite functional to some
extent. However, each also has some limitations. And none of these
backends have been tested to the level of completeness and
correctness that we expect from cairo backends.
We do encourage people to experiment with these backends and report
success, failure, or means of improving them.
Operator behavior
-----------------
* Prior to 0.9.0 the SOURCE, CLEAR and a number of other operators
behaved in an inconsistent and buggy fashion and could affect areas
outside the clip mask. In 0.9.0, these six "unbounded" operators
were fixed to consistently clear areas outside the shape but within
the clip mask. This is useful behavior for an operator such as IN,
but not what was expected for SOURCE and CLEAR. So, in this release
the behavior of SOURCE and CLEAR has been changed again. They now
affect areas only within both the source and shape. We can write
the new operators as:
SOURCE: dest' = (mask IN clip) ? source : dest
CLEAR: dest' = (mask IN clip) ? 0 : dest
Behavior and API changes
------------------------
* Setting the filter on a gradient pattern would change the
interpolation between color stops away from the normal linear
interpolation. This dubious behavior has been removed.
* The CAIRO_CONTENT_VALID() and CAIRO_FORMAT_VALID() macros --
implementation details that leaked into cairo.h -- have been moved
into an internal header.
* The cairo_show_text function now advances the current point
according to the total advance values of the string.
API additions
-------------
* cairo_set_dash can now detect error and can set
CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_DASH.
Features
--------
* When compiled against recent versions of fontconfig and FreeType,
artificial bold fonts can now be turned on from fonts.conf using
the FC_EMBOLDEN fontconfig key.
Optimization
------------
* The compositing code from the 'xserver' code tree has now been
completely merged into libpixman. This includes MMX optimization of
common operations.
* The image transformation code in libpixman has been improved and
now performs significantly faster.
Bug fixes
---------
* Several crashes related to corruption in the font caches have been
fixed.
* All test cases now match pixel-for-pixel on x86 and PPC; this
required fixing bugs in the compositing, stroking, and pattern
rendering code.
* Negative dash offsets have been fixed to work correctly.
* The stroking of paths with mutiple subpaths has now been fixed to
apply caps to all subpaths rather than just the last one.
* Many build fixes for better portability on various systems.
* Lots of other bug fixes, but we're too tired to describe them in
more detail here.
Release 0.9.2 (2005-08-13 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
Release numbering
-----------------
* You will notice that this release jumped from 0.9.0 to 0.9.2. We've
decided to use an odd micro version number (eg. 0.9.1) to indicate
in-progress development between releases. As soon as 0.9.2 is
tagged, the version will be incremented in CVS to 0.9.3 where it
will stay until just before 0.9.4 is built, uploaded, and tagged.
So, even-micro == a released version, odd-micro == something in-between.
Libpixman dependency dropped
----------------------------
* As of this release, the dependency on an external libpixman has
been dropped. Instead, the code from libpixman needed for cairo has
been incorporated into the cairo source tree. The motivation for
this change is that while cairo's API is stable and ready to be
maintained after the 1.0 release, libpixman's API is not, so we do
not want to expose it at this time.
Also, the incorporation of libpixman into cairo also renames all
previously-public libpixman symbols in order to avoid any conflict
with a future release of libpixman
API additions
-------------
* Macros and functions have been added so that the version of cairo
can be queried at either compile-time or at run-time. The version
is made available as both a human-readable string and as a single
integer:
CAIRO_VERSION_STRING eg. "0.9.2"
CAIRO_VERSION eg. 000902
const char*
cairo_version_string (void); /* eg. "0.9.2" */
int
cairo_version (void); /* eg. 000902 */
A macro is provided to convert a three-part component version into
the encoded single-integer form:
CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(X,Y,Z)
For example, the CAIRO_VERSION value of 000902 is obtained as
CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(0,9,2). The intent is to make version
comparisons easy, either at compile-time:
#if CAIRO_VERSION >= CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(0,9,2)
...
#endif
Or at run-time:
if (cairo_version() >= CAIRO_VERSION_ENCODE(0,9,2)) { /* ... */ }
Thread safety
-------------
* This release adds pthread-based locking (when available) to make
the caches used by cairo safe for threaded programs. Some may
remember a failed experiment with this locking between the 0.5.1
and 0.5.2 snapshots, (where even single-threaded programs that
linked with -lpthread would deadlock). We believe that that problem
has been fixed, so we are looking forward to testing and reports
from users with threaded applications.
Bug fixes
---------
* The XCB and Quartz backends failed to compiled in the 0.9.0 release
due to minor syntax errors. These have now been fixed.
* Various crashes in glitz and pixman due to size 0 glyphs have been
fixed.
Release 0.9.0 (2005-08-08 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
Soname change
-------------
* In all prior snapshots, the libtool library versioning was set to
1:0:0. As this release is intended to mark the beginning of
backwards-compatible releases, the versioning has been incremented
to 2:0:0. You will notice that the numeric extension on the
installed library filename will change similarly.
This change will also require all cairo-using applications to be
recompiled. We recognize that this may cause some frustration since
this release is backwards-compatible with 0.6.0 and in that sense
"shouldn't" require re-compilation. However, since all historical
snapshots have used the same 1:0:0 version in spite of incompatible
API changes between them, it was essential that the upcoming 1.0
release series have distinct library versioning.
All future releases will use the library versioning to properly
indicate compatibility between releases. So, any application
re-compiled now to work with the 0.9.0 will not need to be
recompiled when a compatible 1.0 release of cairo is made in the
future.
API additions
-------------
* Add new function calls to set/get the current antialiasing mode in
the graphics state:
cairo_set_antialias
cairo_get_antialias
This call accepts the same modes recently added for font options
(NONE or GRAY) but affects the rendering of geometry other than
text. The intent of this call is to enable more precise control of
which pixels are affected by each operation, for example to allow
for full-scene antialiasing for seam-free rendering. It is not
expected that non-antialiased rendering will perform better than
anti-aliased rendering.
* Three new functions were added to provide support for mixed cairo-
and non-cairo drawing to the same surface:
cairo_surface_mark_dirty
cairo_surface_mark_dirty_rectangle
cairo_surface_flush
* The return type of the several "reference" functions was change,
(API compatibly), from void to the same type as the argument. The
affected functions are:
cairo_font_face_reference
cairo_scaled_font_reference
cairo_pattern_reference
cairo_surface_reference
cairo_reference
This allows a convenient way to assign and reference in a single
statement.
Semantic changes
----------------
* The behavior of cairo_set_source with a pattern with a non-identity
matrix was previously not well-defined. The new behavior is as
follows:
The pattern's transformation matrix will be locked to the
user space in effect at the time of cairo_set_source(). This means
that further modifications of the CTM will not affect the source
pattern.
cairo-win32
-----------
* Some portability improvements, (eg. workaround for missing stdint.h).
cairo-ft
--------
* Updated to allow compilation with older versions of freetype.
Bug fixes
---------
* Fix the unbounded operators to actually produce a correct result,
(previously the results were artificially restricted to the
bounding box of whatever shape was being drawn rather than
extending out infinitely). The fixed operators are:
CAIRO_OPERATOR_CLEAR
CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE
CAIRO_OPERATOR_OUT
CAIRO_OPERATOR_IN
CAIRO_OPERATOR_DEST_IN
CAIRO_OPERATOR_DEST_ATOP
* Fix cairo_mask and cairo_mask_surface to transform the mask by the
current transformation matrix (CTM).
* Fix cairo_set_source to lock the CTM used to transform the pattern.
* Workaround for X server Render bug involving repeating patterns
with a general transformation matrix.
* cairo_get_font_face fixed to return a "nil" font face object rather
than NULL on error.
* cairo_set_font_face fixed to not crash if given a NULL font face,
(which is the documented interface for restoring the default font
face).
* Fix xlib glyphset caching to not try to free a NULL glyph.
Snapshot 0.6.0 (2005-07-28 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
API changes
-----------
* The prototypes of the following functions have changed:
cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_format
cairo_xlib_surface_create_for_bitmap
A Screen* parameter has been added to each. This allows the cairo
xlib backend to work correctly with multi-head X servers.
* The following function has been modified:
cairo_scaled_font_create
to accept a cairo_font_options_t*. See below fore more details.
* All opaque, reference-counted cairo objects have now been moved to a
standard error-handling scheme. The new objects to receive this
treatment are cairo_font_face_t, cairo_scaled_font_t, and
cairo_surface_t. (Previous snapshots already provided this scheme
for cairo_t, cairo_path_t, and cairo_pattern_t.)
This changes two functions to have a return type of void rather than
cairo_status_t:
cairo_scaled_font_extent
cairo_surface_finish
And significantly, none of the create functions for any of the
objects listed above will return NULL. The pointer returned from any
function will now always be a valid pointer and should always be
passed to the corresponding destroy function when finished
The simplest strategy for porting code is to switch from:
object = cairo_<object>_create ();
if (object == NULL)
goto BAILOUT;
/* act on object */
cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
to:
object = cairo_<object>_create ();
if (cairo_<object>_status (object))
goto BAILOUT;
/* act on object */
cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
But significantly, it is not required to check for an error status
before the "act on object" portions of the code above. All
operations on an object with an error status are, by definition,
no-ops without side effect. So new code might be written in an
easier-to-read style of:
object = cairo_<object>_create ();
/* act on object */
cairo_<object>_destroy (object);
with cairo_<object>_status checks placed only at strategic
locations. For example, passing an error object to another object,
(eg. cairo_set_source with an in-error pattern), will propagate the
error to the subsequent object (eg. the cairo_t). This means that
error checking can often be deferred even beyond the destruction of
a temporary object.
API additions
-------------
* New functions for checking the status of objects that have been
switched to the common error-handling scheme:
cairo_font_face_status
cairo_scaled_font_status
cairo_surface_status
* The _cairo_error function which was added in 0.5.1 has now been made
much more useful. In 0.5.1 only errors on cairo_t objects passed
through _cairo_error. Now, an error on any object should pass
through _cairo_error making it much more reliable as a debugging
mechanism for finding when an error first occurs.
* Added new font options support with a myriad of functions:
cairo_font_options_create
cairo_font_options_copy
cairo_font_options_destroy
cairo_font_options_status
cairo_font_options_merge
cairo_font_options_equal
cairo_font_options_hash
cairo_font_options_set_antialias
cairo_font_options_get_antialias
cairo_font_options_set_subpixel_order
cairo_font_options_get_subpixel_order
cairo_font_options_set_hint_style
cairo_font_options_get_hint_style
cairo_font_options_set_hint_metrics
cairo_font_options_get_hint_metrics
cairo_surface_get_font_options
cairo_ft_font_options_substitute
cairo_set_font_options
cairo_get_font_options
This new font options support allows the application to have much
more fine-grained control over how fonts are rendered.
Significantly, it also allows surface backends to have some
influence over the process. For example, the xlib backend now
queries existing Xft properties to set font option defaults.
* New function:
cairo_xlib_surface_set_drawable
which allows the target drawable for an xlib cairo_surface_t to be
changed to another with the same format, screen, and display. This
is necessary in certain double-buffering techniques.
New features
------------
* Sub-pixel text antialiasing is now supported.
Bug fixes
---------
* Fixed assertion failure in cairo_surface_create_similar when
application commits an error by passing a cairo_format_t rather than
a cairo_content_t.
* Avoid division by zero in various places (cairo-ft).
* Fix infinite loop when using non-default visuals (cairo-xlib).
* Eliminate segfault in cairo_image_surface_create_from_png_stream.
* Prevent errant sign-extension of masks on 64-bit architectures
(cairo-xlib and cairo-xcb).
* Other miscellaneous fixes.
Snapshot 0.5.2 (2005-07-18 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
API changes
-----------
* New functions for creating patterns of a single color:
cairo_pattern_create_rgb
cairo_pattern_create_rgba
* Change cairo_surface_create_similar to accept a new type of
cairo_content_t rather than cairo_format_t:
typedef enum _cairo_content {
CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR = 0x1000,
CAIRO_CONTENT_ALPHA = 0x2000,
CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA = 0x3000
} cairo_content_t;
* Add new CAIRO_FORMAT_VALID and CAIRO_CONTENT_VALID macros.
* Remove unused status value:
CAIRO_STATUS_NO_TARGET_SURFACE
* Add new status values:
CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_STATUS
* Require libpixman >= 0.1.5 (for necessary bug fixes)
Bug fixes
---------
* Fix cairo_surface_write_to_png for RGB24 images.
* Fix broken metrics and rendering for bitmap fonts. Add mostly
useless bitmap glyph transformation.
* Fix glyph caches to not eject entries that might be immediately
needed, (fixing intermittent crashes when rendering text).
* Fix all memory leaks found by running "make check-valgrind".
ATSUI backend changes
---------------------
* Allow building against < 10.3 SDK.
* Prevent crash on empty strings.
Glitz backend changes
---------------------
* Require glitz >= 0.4.4.
* Use frame buffer objects instead of pbuffers for accelerated
offscreen drawing.
* Minor improvement to gradient pattern creation.
PostScript backend fixes
------------------------
* Rewrite of the PS backend to generate more interesting output that
the old big-image implementation.
Win32 backend fixes
-------------------
* Implement glyph path support.
* Fix swap of blue and green values in the fill_rectangles path.
Xlib backend fixes
------------------
* Add optimization to use XCopyArea rather than XRenderComposite when
transforming only with an integer translation, and using SOURCE
operator or OVER with a source pattern without alpha.
Snapshot 0.5.1 (2005-06-20 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
API changes
-----------
* Removed cairo_status_string(cairo_t*) and add
cairo_status_to_string(cairo_status_t) in its place. Code using
cairo_status_string can be ported forward as follows:
cairo_status (cr);
->
cairo_status_to_string (cairo_status (cr));
* Removed the BAD_NESTING restriction which means that two different
cairo_t objects can now interleave drawing to the same
cairo_surface_t without causing an error.
* The following functions which previously had a return type of
cairo_status_t now have a return type of void:
cairo_pattern_add_color_stop_rgba
cairo_pattern_set_matrix
cairo_pattern_get_matrix
cairo_pattern_set_extend
cairo_pattern_set_filter
See discussion of cairo_pattern_status below for more details.
API additions
-------------
* Improved error handling:
cairo_status_t
cairo_pattern_status (cairo_pattern_t *pattern);
This snapshot expands the status-based error handling scheme from
cairo_t to cairo_path_t and cairo_pattern_t. It also expands the
scheme so that object-creating functions, (cairo_create,
cairo_pattern_create_*, cairo_copy_path_*), are now guaranteed to
not return NULL. Instead, in the case of out-of-memory these
functions will return a static object with
status==CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY. The status can be checked with the
functions cairo_status and cairo_pattern_status, or by direct
inspection of the new status field in cairo_path_t.
Please note that some objects, including cairo_surface_t and all of
the font-related objects have not been converted to this
error-handling scheme.
* In addition to the above changes, a new private function has been added:
_cairo_error
This function can be used to set a breakpoint in a debugger to make
it easier to find programming error in cairo-using code. (Currently,
_cairo_error is called when any error is detected within a cairo_t
context, but is not called for non-cairo_t errors such as for
cairo_path_t and cairo_pattern_t).
* Fixed cairo_path_data_t so that its enum is visible to C++ code, (as
cairo_path_data_type_t).
Performance improvements
------------------------
* Made a minor performance improvement for clipping, (restrict clip
surface to the new intersected bounds).
* Optimize rendering of a solid source pattern with a pixel-aligned
rectangular path to use backend clipping rather than rasterization
and backend compositing.
* Optimize cairo_paint_with_alpha to defer to cairo_paint when alpha
is 1.0.
Bug fixes
---------
* Fixed memory leak in cairo_copy_path.
* A build fix for non-srcdir builds.
PDF backend fixes
-----------------
* New support for path-based clipping.
* Fix for text rotated to angles other than multiples of π/2.
Win32 backend fixes
-------------------
* Fix for text extents.
Xlib backend
------------
* Implemented a complex workaround for X server bug[*] related to
Render-based compositing with untransformed, repeating source
pictures. The workaround uses core Xlib when possible for
performance, (ie. with CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE or CAIRO_OPERATOR_OVER
with an opaque source surface), and falls back to the pixman
image-based compositing otherwise.
[*] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3566
* Various bug fixes, particularly in the fallback paths.
Snapshot 0.5.0 (2005-05-17 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
This is a pretty big, and fairly significant snapshot. It represents
between 2 and 3 months of solid work from a lot of people on improving
the API as much as possible. I'd like to express my appreciation and
congratulations to everyone who has worked on the big API Shakeup,
(whether in email battles over names, or fixing my silly bugs).
This snapshot will require some effort on the part of users, since
there are a _lot_ of API changes (ie. no cairo program ever written is
safe --- they're all broken now in at least one way). But, in spite of
that, we do encourage everyone to move their code to this snapshot as
soon as possible. And we're doing everything we can think of to make
the transition as smooth as possible.
The idea behind 0.5 is that we've tried to make every good API change
we could want now, and get them all done with. That is, between now
and the 1.0 release of cairo, we expect very few new API changes,
(though some will certainly sneak in). We will have some significant
additions, but the pain of moving code from cairo 0.4 to cairo 0.5
should be a one time experience, and things should be much smoother as
we continue to move toward cairo 1.0.
And with so many changes coming out for the first time in this 0.5
release, we really do need a lot of people trying this out to make
sure the ideas are solid before we freeze the API in preparation for
the 1.0 release.
OK, enough introduction. Here is a (not-quite-complete) description of
the API removals, changes and additions in this snapshot, (compared to
0.4.0)
API removals
============
The following public functions have been removed:
- cairo_set_target_*
This is a big change. See the description of cairo_create in
the API changes section for how to deal with this.
- cairo_set_alpha
Alpha blending hasn't gone away; there's just a much more
unified rendering model now. Almost all uses of
cairo_set_alpha will be trivially replaced with
cairo_set_source_rgba and a few others will be replaced just
as easily with cairo_paint_with_alpha.
- cairo_show_surface
Another useful function that we realized was muddling up the
rendering model. The replacement is quite easy:
cairo_set_source_surface and cairo_paint.
- cairo_matrix_create
- cairo_matrix_destroy
- cairo_matrix_copy
- cairo_matrix_get_affine
These functions supported an opaque cairo_matrix_t. We now
have an exposed cairo_matrix_t structure, so these can be
dropped.
- cairo_surface_set_repeat
- cairo_surface_set_matrix
- cairo_surface_set_filter
These properties don't belong on surfaces. If you were using
them, you'll just want to instead use
cairo_pattern_create_for_surface and then set these properties
on the pattern.
- cairo_copy
This was a confusing function and hopefully nobody will miss
it. But if you really don't find cairo_save/restore adequate,
let us know and we have another idea for a potential
replacement.
And while we're on the subject of removals, we carefully tightened up
the cairo header files so they no longer gratuitously include header
files that are not strictly necessary, (stdio.h, stdint.h, pixman.h,
Xrender.h, etc. and their dependencies). This may lead to some
surprising errors, so keep your eyes open for that.
API changes
===========
Here are some of the API changes that have occurred:
~ cairo_create(void) -> cairo_create(cairo_surface_t *)
This is the big change that breaks every program. The ability
to re-target a cairo_t was not particularly useful, but it did
introduce a lot of muddy semantic questions. To eliminate
that, cairo_create now requires its target surface to be
passed in at creation time. This isn't too hard to cope with
as the typical first operation after cairo_create was often
cairo_set_target_foo. So the order of those two swap and the
application instead has cairo_foo_surface_create, then
cairo_create.
~ cairo_current_* -> cairo_get_*
We had a strange mixture of cairo_get and cairo_current
functions. They've all been standardized on cairo_get, (though
note one is cairo_get_current_point).
~ CAIRO_OPERATOR_SRC -> CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE
~ CAIRO_OPERATOR_OVER_REVERSE -> CAIRO_OPERATOR_DEST_OVER
Many of the cairo_operator_t symbolic values were renamed to
reduce the amount of abbreviation. The confusing "OP_REVERSE"
naming was also changed to use "DEST_OP" instead which is
easier to read and has wider acceptance in other
libraries/languages.
~ cairo_set_pattern -> cairo_set_source
~ cairo_set_rgb_color -> cairo_set_source_rgb
All of the various functions that changed the source
color/pattern were unified to use cairo_set_source names to
make the relation more clear.
~ cairo_transform_point -> cairo_user_to_device
~ cairo_transform_distance -> cairo_user_to_device_distance
~ cairo_inverse_transform_point -> cairo_device_to_user
~ cairo_inverse_transform_distance -> cairo_device_to_user_distance
These names just seemed a lot more clear.
~ cairo_init_clip -> cairo_reset_clip
~ cairo_concat_matrix -> cairo_transform
More abbreviation elimination
~ cairo_current_path -> cairo_copy_path
~ cairo_current_path_flat -> cairo_copy_path_flat
The former mechanism for examining the current path was a
function that required 3 or 4 callbacks. This was more
complexity than warranted in most situations. The new
cairo_copy_path function copies the current path into an
exposed data structure, and the documentation provides a
convenient idiom for navigating the path data.
API additions
-------------
+ cairo_paint
A generalized version of the painting operators cairo_stroke
and cairo_fill. The cairo_paint call applies the source paint
everywhere within the current clip region. Very useful for
clearing a surface to a solid color, or painting an image,
(see cairo_set_source_surface).
+ cairo_paint_with_alpha
Like cairo_paint but applying some alpha to the source,
(making the source paint translucent, eg. to blend an image on
top of another).
+ cairo_mask
A more generalized version of cairo_paint_with_alpha which
allows a pattern to specify the amount of translucence at each
point rather than using a constant value everywhere.
+ cairo_mask_surface
A convenience function on cairo_mask for when the mask pattern
is already contained within a surface.
+ cairo_surface_set_user_data
+ cairo_surface_get_user_data
+ cairo_font_face_set_user_data
+ cairo_font_face_get_user_data
Associate arbitrary data with a surface or font face for later
retrieval. Get notified when a surface or font face object is
destroyed.
+ cairo_surface_finish
Allows the user to instruct cairo to finish all of its
operations for a given surface. This provides a safe point for
doing things such as flushing and closing files that the
surface may have had open for writing.
+ cairo_fill_preserve
+ cairo_stroke_preserve
+ cairo_clip_preserve
One interesting change in cairo is that the path is no longer
part of the graphics state managed by
cairo_save/restore. This allows functions to construct paths
without interfering with the graphics state. But it prevents
the traditional idiom for fill-and-stroke:
cairo_save; cairo_fill; cairo_restore; cairo_stroke
Instead we know have alternate versions cairo cairo_fill,
cairo_stroke, and cairo_clip that preserve the current path
rather than consuming it. So the idiom now becomes simply:
cairo_fill_preserve; cairo_stroke
+ cairo_surface_write_to_png
+ cairo_surface_write_to_png_stream
In place of a single PNG backend, now a surface created
through any backend (except PDF currently) can be written out
to a PNG image.
+ cairo_image_surface_create_from_png
+ cairo_image_surface_create_from_png_stream
And its just as easy to load a PNG image into a surface as well.
+ cairo_append_path
With the new, exposed path data structure, it's now possible
to append bulk path data to the current path, (rather than
issuing a long sequence of cairo_move_to/line_to/curve_to
function calls).
Xlib and XCB backends
---------------------
Any cairo_format_t and Colormap arguments have been dropped from
cairo_xlib_surface_create. There are also two new
cairo_xlib|xcb_surface_create functions:
cairo_xlib|xcb_surface_create_for_bitmap
(Particular for creating A1 surfaces)
cairo_xlib|xcb_surface_create_with_xrender_format
(For any other surface types, not described by a Visual*)
All of these surface create functions now accept width and height. In
addition, there are new cairo_xlib|xcb_surface_set_size functions
which must be called each time a window that is underlying a surface
changes size.
Print backends (PS and PDF)
---------------------------
The old FILE* based interfaces have been eliminated. In their place we
have two different functions. One accepts a simple const char
*filename. The other is a more general function which accepts a
callback write function and a void* closure. This should allow the
flexibility needed to hook up with various stream object in many
languages.
In addition, when specifying the surface size during construction, the
units are now device-space units (ie. points) rather than inches. This
provides consistency with all the other surface types and also makes
it much easier to reason about the size of the surface when drawing to
it with the default identity matrix.
Finally, the DPI parameters, which are only needed to control the
quality of fallbacks, have been made optional. Nothing is required
during surface_create (300 DPI is assumed) and
cairo_ps|pdf_surface_set_dpi can be used to set alternate values if
needed.
Font system
-----------
Owen very graciously listened to feedback after the big font rework he
had done for 0.4, and came up with way to improve it even more. In 0.4
there was a cairo_font_t that was always pre-scaled. Now, there is an
unscaled cairo_font_face_t which is easier to construct, (eg. no
scaling matrix required) and work with, (it can be scaled and
transformed after being set on the graphics state). And the font size
manipulation functions are much easier. You can set an explicit size
and read/modify/write the font matrix with:
cairo_set_font_size
cairo_get_font_matrix
cairo_set_font_matrix
(Previously you could only multiply in a scale factor or a matrix.) A
pleasant side effect is that we can (and do) now have a default font
size that is reasonable, as opposed to the old default height of one
device-space unit which was useless until scaled.
Of course, the old pre-scaled font had allowed some performance
benefits when getting many metrics for a font. Those benefits are
still made available through the new cairo_scaled_font_t. And a
cairo_font_face_t can be "promoted" to a cairo_scaled_font_t by
suppling a font_matrix and the desired CTM.
Quartz backend
--------------
Tim Rowley put in the work to bring the Quartz backend back after it
had been disabled in the 0.4.0 snapshot. He was not able to bring back
the function that allows one to create a cairo_font_t from an ATSUI
style:
cairo_font_t *
cairo_atsui_font_create (ATSUStyle style);
because he didn't have a test case for it. If you care about this
function, please provide a fairly minimal test and we'll try to bring
it back in an upcoming snapshot.
Snapshot 0.4.0 (2005-03-08 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
New documentation
-----------------
Owen Taylor has converted cairo's documentation system to gtk-doc and
has begun some long-needed work on the documentation, which can now be
viewed online here:
http://cairographics.org/manual/
New backend: win32
------------------
This is the first snapshot to include a functional win32 backend,
(thanks to Owen Taylor). The interface is as follows:
#include <cairo-win32.h>
void
cairo_set_target_win32 (cairo_t *cr,
HDC hdc);
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_win32_surface_create (HDC hdc);
cairo_font_t *
cairo_win32_font_create_for_logfontw (LOGFONTW *logfont,
cairo_matrix_t *scale);
cairo_status_t
cairo_win32_font_select_font (cairo_font_t *font,
HDC hdc);
void
cairo_win32_font_done_font (cairo_font_t *font);
double
cairo_win32_font_get_scale_factor (cairo_font_t *font);
And see also the documentation at:
http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Microsoft-Windows-Backend.html
Disabled backend: quartz
------------------------
Unfortunately, the quartz backend code is currently out of date with
respect to some recent backend interface changes. So, the quartz
backend is disabled in this snapshot.
If the quartz backend is brought up-to-date before the next snapshot,
we would be glad to make a 0.4.1 snapshot that re-enables it, (we do
not expect many more big backend interface changes).
API Changes
-----------
The font system has been revamped, (as Owen Taylor's work with
integrating pango and cairo gave us the first serious usage of the
non-toy font API).
One fundamental, user-visible change is that the cairo_font_t object
now represents a font that is scaled to a particular device
resolution. Further changes are described below.
cairo.h
-------
Removed cairo_font_set_transform and cairo_font_current_transform.
Added cairo_font_extents and cairo_font_glyph_extents. See
documentation for details:
http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-cairo-t.html#cairo-font-extents
cairo-ft.h
----------
The cairo_ft_font API changed considerably. Please see the
documentation for details:
http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-FreeType-Fonts.html
Performance
-----------
Make the fast-path clipping (pixel-aligned rectangles) faster.
Add optimization for applying a constant alpha to a pattern.
Optimize gradients that are horizontal or vertical in device space.
Xlib: When RENDER is not available, use image surfaces for
intermediate surfaces rather than xlib surfaces.
Backend-specific changes
------------------------
Glitz
-----
Major update to glitz backend. The output quality should now be just
as good as the image and xlib backends.
Track changes to glitz 0.4.0.
PDF
---
Various improvements to produce more conformant output.
Internals
---------
David Reveman contributed a large re-work of the cairo_pattern_t
implementation, providing cleaner code and more optimization
opportunities.
Backend interface changes
-------------------------
Rework backend interface to accept patterns, not surfaces for source
and mask.
Remove set_matrix, set_filter, and set_repeat functions.
More sophisticated backend interface for image fallbacks,
({acquire,release}_{source,dest}_image() and clone_similar).
Bug fixes
---------
Only install header files for backends that have been compiled.
Fixed some rounding errors leading to incorrectly placed glyphs.
Many other minor fixes.
Snapshot 0.3.0 (2005-01-21 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
==========================================================
Major API changes
-----------------
1) The public header files will no longer be directly installed into
the system include directory. They will now be installed in a
subdirectory named "cairo", (eg. in /usr/include/cairo rather than
in /usr/include).
As always, the easiest way for applications to discover the
location of the header file is to let pkg-config generate the
necessary -I CFLAGS and -L/-l LDFLAGS. For example:
cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo` -o foo foo.c
IMPORTANT: Users with old versions of cairo installed will need to
manually remove cairo.h and cairo-features.h from the
system include directories in order to prevent the old
headers from being used in preference to the new ones.
2) The backend-specific portions of the old monolithic cairo.h have
been split out into individual public header files. The new files
are:
cairo-atsui.h
cairo-ft.h
cairo-glitz.h
cairo-pdf.h
cairo-png.h
cairo-ps.h
cairo-quartz.h
cairo-xcb.h
cairo-xlib.h
Applications will need to be modified to explicitly include the new
header files where appropriate.
3) There are two new graphics backends in this snapshot, a PDF
backend, and a Quartz backend. There is also one new font backend,
ATSUI.
PDF backend
-----------
Kristian Høgsberg has contributed a new backend to allow cairo-based
applications to generate PDF output. The interface for creating a PDF
surface is similar to that of the PS backend, as can be seen in
cairo-pdf.h:
void
cairo_set_target_pdf (cairo_t *cr,
FILE *file,
double width_inches,
double height_inches,
double x_pixels_per_inch,
double y_pixels_per_inch);
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_pdf_surface_create (FILE *file,
double width_inches,
double height_inches,
double x_pixels_per_inch,
double y_pixels_per_inch);
Once a PDF surface has been created, applications can draw to it as
any other cairo surface.
This code is still a bit rough around the edges, and does not yet
support clipping, surface patterns, or transparent gradients. Text
only works with TrueType fonts at this point and only black text is
supported. Also, the size of the generated PDF files is currently
quite big.
Kristian is still actively developing this backend, so watch this
space for future progress.
Quartz backend
--------------
Calum Robinson has contributed a new backend to allow cairo
applications to target native Mac OS X windows through the Quartz
API. Geoff Norton integrated this backend into the current
configure-based build system, while Calum also provided Xcode build
support in the separate "macosx" module available in CVS.
The new interface, available in cairo-quartz.h, is as follows:
void
cairo_set_target_quartz_context (cairo_t *cr,
CGContextRef context,
int width,
int height);
cairo_surface_t *
cairo_quartz_surface_create (CGContextRef context,
int width,
int height);
There is an example program available in CVS in cairo-demo/quartz. It
is a port of Keith Packard's fdclock program originally written for
the xlib backend. A screenshot of this program running on Mac OS X is
available here:
http://cairographics.org/~cworth/images/fdclock-quartz.png
ATSUI font backend
------------------
This new font backend complements the Quartz backend by allowing
applications to use native font selection on Mac OS X. The interface
is a single new function:
cairo_font_t *
cairo_atsui_font_create (ATSUStyle style);
Minor API changes
-----------------
Prototype for non-existent function "cairo_ft_font_destroy" removed.
Now depends on libpixman 0.1.2 or newer, (0.1.3 is being released
concurrently and has some useful performance improvements).
Default paint color is now opaque black, (was opaque white). Default
background color is transparent (as before).
Renamed "struct cairo" to "struct _cairo" to free up the word "cairo"
from the C++ identifier name space.
Functions returning multiple return values through provided pointers,
(cairo_matrix_get_affine, cairo_current_point, and
cairo_current_color_rgb), will now accept NULL for values the user
wants to ignore.
CAIRO_HAS_FREETYPE_FONT has now been renamed to CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT.
Performance improvements
------------------------
Alexander Larsson provided some fantastic performance improvements
yielding a 10000% performance improvement in his application, (when
also including his performance work in libpixman-0.1.3). These include
* Fixed handling of cache misses.
* Creating intermediate clip surfaces at the minimal size required.
* Eliminating roundtrips when creating intermediate Xlib surfaces.
Implementation
--------------
Major re-work of font metrics system by Keith Packard. Font metrics
should now be much more reliable.
Glitz backend
-------------
Updated for glitz-0.3.0.
Bug fixes in reference counting.
Test suite
----------
New tests for cache crashing, rotating text, improper filling of
complex polygons, and leaky rasterization.
Bug fixes
---------
Fixed assertion failure when selecting the same font multiple times in
sequence.
Fixed reference counting so cache_destroy functions work.
Remove unintended copyright statement from files generated with
PostScript backend.
Fixed to eliminate new warnings from gcc 3.4 and gcc 4.
Snapshot 0.2.0 (2004-10-27 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
New license: LGPL/MPL
---------------------
The most significant news with this release is that the license of
cairo has changed. It is now dual-licensed under the LGPL and the
MPL. For details see the COPYING file as well as COPYING-LGPL-2.1 and
COPYING-MPL-1.1.
I express my thanks to everyone involved in the license change process
for their patience and support!
New font and glyph internals
----------------------------
Graydon Hoare has put a tremendous amount of work into new internals
for handling fonts and glyphs, including caches where appropriate.
This work has no impact on the user-level API, but should result in
great performance improvements for applications using text.
New test suite
--------------
This snapshot of cairo includes a (small) test suite in
cairo/test. The tests can be run with "make check". The test suite was
designed to make it very easy to add new tests, and we hope to see
many contributions here. As you find bugs, please try adding a minimal
test case to the suite, and submit it with the bug report to the
cairo@cairographics.org mailing list. This will make it much easier
for us to track progress in fixing bugs.
New name for glitz backend
--------------------------
The gl backend has now been renamed to the glitz backend. This means
that the following names have changed:
CAIRO_HAS_GL_SURFACE -> CAIRO_HAS_GLITZ_SURFACE
cairo_set_target_gl -> cairo_set_target_glitz
cairo_gl_surface_create -> cairo_glitz_surface_create
This change obviously breaks backwards compatibility for applications
using the old gl backend.
Up-to-date with latest glitz snapshots
--------------------------------------
This snapshot of cairo is now up to date with the latest glitz
snapshot, (currently 0.2.3). We know that the latest cairo and glitz
snapshots have been incompatible for a very long time. We've finally
fixed that now and we're determined to not let that happen again.
Revert some tessellation regression bugs
----------------------------------------
People that have been seeing some tessellation bugs, (eg. leaked
fills), in the CVS version of cairo may have better luck with this
release. A change since the last snapshot was identified to trigger
some of these bugs and was reverted before making the snapshot. The
behavior should be the same as the previous (0.1.23) snapshot.
Miscellaneous changes
---------------------
Changed CAIRO_FILTER_DEFAULT to CAIRO_FILTER_BEST to make gradients
easier.
Track XCB API change regarding iterators.
Various bug fixes
-----------------
Fix calculation of required number of vertices for pen.
Fix to avoid zero-dimensioned pixmaps.
Fix broken sort of pen vertices.
Fix bug when cairo_show_text called with a NULL string.
Fix clipping bugs.
Fix bug in computing image length with XCB.
Fix infinite loop bug in cairo_arc.
Fix memory management interactions with libpixman.
Snapshot 0.1.23 (2004-05-11 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
Fixes for gcc 3.4
-----------------
Fix prototype mismatches so that cairo can be built by gcc 3.4.
Updates to track glitz
----------------------
Various fixes to support the latest glitz snapshot (0.1.2).
Gradient updates
----------------
Radial gradients now support both inner and outer circles.
Transformed linear gradients are now properly handled.
Fixes for extend type reflect.
Glitz updates
-------------
Converted shading routines to use fixed point values and introduced a
shading operator structure for more efficient shading calculations.
Support compositing with mask surface when mask is solid or
multi-texturing is available.
PNG backend cleanups
--------------------
Fix output to properly compensate for pre-multiplied alpha format in cairo.
Add support for A8 and A1 image formats.
Bug fixes
---------
Avoid crash or infinite loop on null strings and degeneratively short
splines.
New? bugs in cairo_clip
-----------------------
There are some fairly serious bugs in cairo_clip. It is sometimes
causing an incorrect result. And even when it does work, it is
sometimes so slow as to be unusable. Some of these bugs may not be
new, (indeed cairo_clip has only ever had a braindead-slow
implementation), but I think they're worth mentioning here.
Snapshot 0.1.22 (2004-04-16 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
Cairo was updated to track the changes in libpixman, and now depends
on libpixman version 0.1.1.
Snapshot 0.1.21 (2004-04-09 David Reveman <c99drn@cs.umu.se>)
=============================================================
New OpenGL backend
------------------
The OpenGL backend provides hardware accelerated output for
X11 and OS X. The significant new functions are:
cairo_set_target_gl
cairo_gl_surface_create
Automatic detection of available backends
-----------------------------------------
The configure script now automatically detect what backends are
available, (use ./configure --disable-`backend' to prevent
compilation of specific backends).
Snapshot 0.1.20 (2004-04-06 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
New pattern API
---------------
David Reveman has contributed a new pattern API which enable linear
and radial gradient patterns in addition to the original surface-based
patterns. The significant new top-level functions are:
cairo_pattern_create_linear
cairo_pattern_create_radial
cairo_pattern_create_for_surface
cairo_pattern_add_color_stop
cairo_set_pattern
Any code using the old cairo_set_pattern, (which accepted a
cairo_surface_t rather than a cairo_pattern_t), will need to be
updated.
Update to XCB backend
---------------------
The XCB backend is now enabled by default, (use ./configure
--disable-xcb to turn it off).
Faster clipping
---------------
Graydon Hoare has added optimizations that make cairo_clip much faster
when the path is a pixel-aligned, rectangular region.
Bug fixes.
Snapshot 0.1.19 (2004-02-24 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
New PNG backend
---------------
Olivier Andrieu contributed a new PNG backend. It builds on the
existing image backend to make it easy to render "directly" to a
.png file. The user never needs to deal with the actual image
buffer. The significant new functions are:
cairo_set_target_png
cairo_png_surface_create
The PNG backend is not enabled by default so that by default there is
not a new dependency on libpng. Use ./configure --enable-png to enable
this backend.
Snapshot 0.1.18 (2004-02-17 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
Path query functionality
------------------------
It's now possible to query the current path. The two new functions
are:
cairo_current_path
cairo_current_path_flat
Each function accepts a number of callback functions that will be
called for each element in the path (move_to, line_to, curve_to,
close_path). The cairo_current_path_flat function does not accept a
curve_to callback. Instead, all curved portions of the path will be
converted to line segments, (within the current tolerance value). This
can be handy for doing things like text-on-path without having to
manually interpolate Bézier splines.
New XCB backend
---------------
Jamey Sharp has contributed a second X backend that uses the new, lean
XCB library rather than Xlib. It cannot currently be compiled at the
same time as the Xlib backend. See ./configure --enable-xcb.
Build fixes for cygwin.
Bug fixes.
Snapshot 0.1.17 (2003-12-16 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
========================================================
Better text support
-------------------
This snapshot provides much better text support by implementing the
following four functions:
cairo_text_extents
cairo_glyph_extents
cairo_text_path
cairo_glyph_path
The text/glyph_extents functions can be used to determine the bounding
box (and advance) for text as if drawn by show_text/glyphs.
The text/glyph_path objects functions place text shapes on the current
path, where they can be subsequently manipulated. For example,
following these functions with cairo_stroke allows outline text to be
drawn. Calling cairo_clip allows clipping to a text-shaped region.
Combined dependencies
---------------------
The cairo core now depends only on the libpixman library. This single
library replaces the three previous libraries libic, libpixregion, and
slim. Thanks to Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> for all of
the heavy lifting with this renaming effort.
Conditional compilation of backends
-----------------------------------
Cairo now allows optional backends to be disabled at compile time. The
following options may now be passed to the configure script:
--disable-xlib
--disable-ps
Note that the first option is a change from the old --without-x option
which will no longer have any effect.
OS X supported - several byte-order issues resolved
---------------------------------------------------
Cairo has now been successfully compiled under OS X. Testing revealed
that there were some byte-order problems in the PostScript backend and
the PNG generation in the demos. These have now been resolved.
2003-10
=======
Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> implemented the first real text
support using Freetype/fontconfig, (previous versions of cairo used
Xft and could only draw text when using an X backend).
2003-09
=======
Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> added the first real support for
running cairo with a non-render-aware X server.
Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> virtualized the backend font and
surface interfaces in September, 2003.
2003-06
=======
Xr is renamed cairo to avoid confusion since it no longer had a strict
dependence on X.
2003-05
=======
A new image surface backend is added to Xr. Keith Packard
<keithp@keithp.com> wrote the image compositing code in libic that is
used for the image_surface backend. This code was originally written
as the software fallback for the render extension within the X
server.
2002-06
=======
Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu> wrote the first lines of Xr, after Keith
Packard <keithp@keithp.com> proposed the plan for a stateful drawing
library in C providing a PostScript-like rendering model.