On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:15:39 +0200, jiho wrote:
and groups: Cairo rasterizes transparent objects and there are some strange interaction with groups. IIRC it rasterizes all objects in a group containing a transparent object even if the other objects are opaque, above the transparent one. I tried several things right now but it seems Cairo rasterized everything in the drawing as soon as there was a transparent object in it.
Yes, that sounds like the state of cairo 1.4.10. It's gotten a *lot* better in the 1.5.x stuff currently in development.
I thought I had an "old" version of Cairo but 1.4.10 (which I have) appears to be the latest stable one. Hence it is the latest "easily" available on OS X ("easily" meaning without fetching cairo source and compiling it by myself). I would gladly add a Cairo-devel port just for me, so that it integrated well with the rest of the build system on OS X, but the MacPort system can't use git to fetch code, only svn.
Time to upgrade MacPort then. :-)
I tried to figure out a way to get devel snapshots but the only I found were months old (http://cairographics.org/snapshots/? C=M;O=D). Is there any way other than git to get recent development version of Cairo?
At this moment, git it is. But like I said in my previous mail, I'll make a cairo 1.5.2 snapshot today or tomorrow, (and post it to the above URL).
-Carl