cairo/BUGS
2004-03-22 17:56:35 +00:00

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Splines are not dashed.
The polygon tessellation routine has problems. It appears that the
following paper has the right answers:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/93/2-27.ps.gz
[Hobby93c] John D. Hobby, Practical Segment Intersection with
Finite Precision Output, Computation Geometry Theory and
Applications, 13(4), 1999.
Stroking a self-intersecting path generates the wrong answer, (in
mostly subtle ways). The fix is to tessellate a giant polygon for the
entire stroke outline rather than incrementally generating trapezoids.
Cairo is crashing Xnest with the following message:
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 72 (X_PutImage)
Serial number of failed request: 28
Current serial number in output stream: 29
confirmed on a quite default install of debian unstable.