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Add some historical notes on cairo development, prior to when we began to maintain this NEWS file. Add pointer to cairographics.org. Fix to use cairo rather than Cairo when not at the beginning of a sentence. Remove cairo_current_path, cairo_current_path_flat, cairo_text_extents, cairo_glyph_extents, cairo_text_path, and cairo_glyph_path from the TODO list as they have all been implemented now.
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2003-12-16 cairo-0.1.17 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>
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Better text support
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This snapshot provides much better text support by implementing the
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following four functions:
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cairo_text_extents
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cairo_glyph_extents
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cairo_text_path
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cairo_glyph_path
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The text/glyph_extents functions can be used to determine the bounding
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box (and advance) for text as if drawn by show_text/glyphs.
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The text/glyph_path objects functions place text shapes on the current
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path, where they can be subsequently manipulated. For example,
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following these functions with cairo_stroke allows outline text to be
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drawn. Calling cairo_clip allows clipping to a text-shaped region.
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Combined dependencies
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The cairo core now depends only on the libpixman library. This single
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library replaces the three previous libraries libic, libpixregion, and
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slim. Thanks to Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> for all of
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the heavy lifting with this renaming effort.
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Conditional compilation of backends
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Cairo now allows optional beckends to be disabled at compile time. The
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following options may now be passed to the configure script:
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--disable-xlib
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--disable-ps
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Note that the first option is a change from the old --without-x option
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which will no longer have any effect.
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OS X supported - several byte-order issues resolved
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---------------------------------------------------
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Cairo has now been successfully compiled under OS X. Testing revealed
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that there were some byte-order problems in the PostScript backend and
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the PNG generation in the demos. These have now been resolved.
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2003-10
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Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> implemented the first real text
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support using Freetype/fontconfig, (previous versions of cairo used
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Xft and could only draw text when using an X backend).
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2003-09
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Graydon Hoare <graydon@redhat.com> added the first real support for
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running cairo with a non-render-aware X server.
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Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> virtualized the backend font and
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surface interfaces in September, 2003.
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2003-06
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Xr is renamed cairo to avoid confusion since it no longer had a strict
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dependence on X.
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2003-05
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A new image surface backend is added to Xr. Keith Packard
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<keithp@keithp.com> wrote the image compositing code in libic that is
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used for the image_surface backend. This code was originally written
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as the software fallback for the render extension within the X
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server.
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2002-06
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Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu> wrote the first lines of Xr, after Keith
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Packard <keithp@keithp.com> proposed the plan for a stateful drawing
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library in C providing a PostScript-like rendering model.
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