Date:  Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:47:11 -0300
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Cairo port needed for Mozilla

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From: abwilliDESPAM at DESPAMcomcast.net 


Mozilla is moving towards using Cairo as its rendering engine:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2005/04/glimpse_of_the.html
 
Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality 
display and print output. Currently available backends include the X 
Window System, OpenGL (via glitz), Quartz, win32, in-memory image buffers,
PNG images, PostScript, and PDF files. Some of these backends are still
experimental. Cairo is designed to produce identical output  on all output
media while taking advantage of display hardware  acceleration when
available (eg. through the X Render Extension or  OpenGL). from [
http://www.cairographics.org/introduction ] (warning: this site uses
transparent png and thus loads _VERY_ slowly in Warpzilla).
 
Cairo has not been ported to OS/2 as of yet.  The 1.9 series is about  to
begin (this is when Cairo will begin to be used as the rendering  engine).
I have looked at this but I am not a strong programmer and know  nothing
of graphics programming so have not gotten anywhere.  It looks like the
best route at this time is to base the port off of the  Windows port
(really it is the backend that has to be ported which  seems to consist of
2 files -font and surface - for each system.  
 
Andy


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From: Andy Willis (abwillisDESPAM at DESPAMcomcast.net)


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