Rendering in Mondrian is now externalized into visitors. It should be pretty straightforward to write one for cairo
Alexandre On 22 Jun 2011, at 15:21, Igor Stasenko wrote: > On 22 June 2011 22:08, Alexandre Bergel <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Just wondering what is the status of Athen / Cairo for Pharo? We recently >> put some effort on exporting Mondrian visualization to HTML/Protovis to >> benefit from vectorial graphics... >> > > Status: "Under development" > > :) > > It can draw almost everything morphic-related, except one little thing - text > :) > And now i'm on crossroads , what to do. > Clearly, a StrikeFont(s) is state as they now, simply don't fit with > scalable vector graphics engine. > The bitmaps stored in memory are optimized for exact fit 1:1 of > display pixel grid. > So, at minimum it will require converting all fonts to use different > bitmaps, before they can be drawn using Athens canvas. > > Another thing is drawing strokes. It is a question how far i should go > implementing a basic (and most probably fall-back) engine which using > old BallooonEngine, > which can only draw a coarse, barely anti-aliased strokes. Not saying > it doesn't supports many things, like joint types, dashing , masking > etc etc. > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
