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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2009-06-11 14:42:11 -0700
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2009-06-11 14:54:03 -0700
commit4d5f66d5b1f243e58d43dc89568be9240262fd5c (patch)
tree55df2d13280921cb29df5f8dc80146e3637349d2 /NEWS
parent19630f4b73a4fdfb9855ececd6614493e68d3b95 (diff)
NEWS: Cleanup in preparation for 1.9.2 snapshot
Mostly just wrapping to a reasonable line length, and some minor wording changes.
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@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@ API additions:
cairo_pdf_surface_restrict_to_version()
cairo_pdf_get_versions()
cairo_pdf_version_to_string()
- Similar to restrict to version and level found in SVG and PS, these
- limit the features used in the output to comply with the PDF specification
- for that version.
+
+ Similar to restrict to version and level found in SVG and PS,
+ these limit the features used in the output to comply with the PDF
+ specification for that version.
CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_SIZE
- Indicates that the request surface size is not supported by the backend.
- This generally indicates that the request is too large.
+ Indicates that the request surface size is not supported by the
+ backend. This generally indicates that the request is too large.
CAIRO_STATUS_USER_FONT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
Indicates that a required callback for a user-font was not implemented.
@@ -44,23 +45,31 @@ New experimental backends:
New utility:
- cairo-trace
+ cairo-trace and cairo-perf-trace
- Generates a human-readable, replayable, compact(-ish!) representation of
- the sequences of drawing commands made by an application.
+ cairo-trace generates a human-readable, replayable, compact(-ish!)
+ representation of the sequences of drawing commands made by an
+ application.
Under the util/cairo-script directory is a library to replay traces.
- perf/cairo-perf-trace contains a benchmarking tool for traces, integrated
- with 'make perf' (needs the external trace repository
- git://anongit.freedesktop.org/cairo-traces under perf/cairo-traces).
+ perf/cairo-perf-trace replays traces against multiple backends
+ and makes useful benchmark reports. This is integrated with
+ 'make perf'. You may collect your own traces or take advantage
+ of traces collected by the community:
+
+ git://git.cairographics.org/git/cairo-traces
+
+ (Put this into perf/cairo-traces to run these as part of "make perf".)
There is additional WIP in building a debugging tool for cairo applications
based on CairoScript (currently very preliminary, mostly serves to show
that GtkSourceView is too slow) :
+
people.freedesktop.org:~ickle/sphinx
Test suite overhaul:
+
The test suite is undergoing an overhaul, primarily to improve its speed
and utility. (Expect more changes in the near future to improve XFAIL
handling.)
@@ -72,26 +81,36 @@ Optimisations:
Bovine Polaroids! Though Adrian said that the PDF is not quite working as
well as it should.
-Tweaks to tessellator, allocations of patterns, delayed initialisation of
-the xlib backend (reduce the cairo overhead of render_bench by ~80%).
-
Bug fixes:
-EXTEND_PAD.
-Better handling of large scale-factors on image patterns.
-Emit /Interpolate for PS,PDF images.
-Global glyph cache - cap on the total number of inactive glyphs, should prove
-fairer for fonts with larger glyph sets.
-Compilation without fontconfig
-Improved handling of low-bitdepth sources (e.g. copying the contents of
-16-bit xserver windows)
+
+ EXTEND_PAD.
+
+ Better handling of large scale-factors on image patterns.
+
+ Emit /Interpolate for PS,PDF images.
+
+ Global glyph cache - cap on the total number of inactive glyphs,
+ should prove fairer for fonts with larger glyph sets.
+
+ Compilation without fontconfig
+
+ Improved handling of low-bitdepth sources (e.g. copying the contents
+ of 16-bit xserver windows)
Regressions:
-cairo_traps_extract_region >10x slower. Fix pending.
+
+ cairo_traps_extract_region >10x slower. Fix pending.
Still to come:
-Region tracking API (ssp) for damage tracking, hit testing etc
-mime-surface
-An expiremental OpenGL backend?
+
+ Region tracking API (ssp) for damage tracking, hit testing etc
+ mime-surface
+
+ An expiremental OpenGL backend?
+
+ Tweaks to tessellator, allocations of patterns, delayed
+ initialisation of the xlib backend (reduce the cairo overhead of
+ render_bench by ~80%).
Release 1.8.6 (2008-12-13 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>)
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