A cairo_span_renderer_t implementation can be provided by a surface if
it wants to render paths as horizontal spans of the alpha component of
a mask. Its job is to composite a source pattern to the destination
surface when given spans of alpha coverage for a row while taking care
of backend specific clipping.
A cairo_scan_converter_t takes edges of a flattened path and generates
spans for a span renderer to render.
A new meta-surface backend for serialising drawing operations to a
CairoScript file. The principal use (as currently envisaged) is to provide
a round-trip testing mechanism for CairoScript - i.e. we can generate
script files for every test in the suite and check that we can replay them
with perfect fidelity. (Obviously this does not provide complete coverage
of CairoScript's syntax, but should give reasonable coverage over the
operators.)
Benjamin Otte reports that in one particular benchmark cairo_in_fill() is
a hotspot in the profile. Currently we tessellate the entire path and then
search for a containing trapezoid. This is very expensive compared to the
simple method of counting the number of edge crossing between the point of
interest and x=-∞. For example, this speeds tessellate-256 up by almost 3
orders of magnitude.
The font data and rendering is adapted from Keith Packard's Twin
window system. The hinting stuff is not ported yet, but hey, it renders!
The implementation uses user fonts, and the user font backend is modified
to use this font face (which we call "twin" font face internally) when
a toy font is needed.
The font face layer is then modified to use this font if:
- The toy font face "cairo" is asked for, or
- No native font backend is available, or
- The preferred native font backend fails to return a font with
STATUS_UNSUPPORTED. No font backend does this right now but
the idea is to change FreeType to return it if no fonts found
on the system.
We also allow building with no font backends now!
The new doc/tutorial/src/twin.c file tests the twin face at various
sizes.
This is where DLL initialization/finalization should be done for example.
Moved the one for win32. For OS/2 just left a comment as the code needs
more work.
This change simplifies building shared and static libraries in the win32
makefiles.
