oliver frommel wrote: > > another question I'd like to ask is about the current state of > the Cairo backend. Is anyone still working on it actively? > Is it usable? I could not get it to compile, however I did not > try very hard. > Good question. I had updated the cairo backend to the latest cairo code this summer. But I had to use a private cairo function to generate glyphs for string drawing. The cairo people tell you that they on purpose don't offer an interface to do this, you should be using native functions for the font system (freetype fonts in our case) instead.
At that time this worked fine by just exporting the symbol for this function. In the meantime cairo made some more progress and release 1.0 is out with another interface for this private function. Thats what you get from using private functions. What we need is somebody willing to write a bit of code to create glyphs, then the backend would compile. It still would not be useful, as I never get my head around which side is up in an image, so cairo GState image drawing is totally wrong. Here another fix or two should do the trick. Fred _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
