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@@ -1,3 +1,68 @@ +Snapshot 1.1.4 (2006-05-03 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) +========================================================== +This is the second in a series of snapshots working toward the +upcoming 1.2 release of cairo. For a list of items still needing work +on the cairo 1.2 roadmap, please see: + + http://cairographics.org/ROADMAP + +The items included in this snapshot (since the 1.1.2 snapshot) are +described below. + +PostScript backend: new printing-oriented API +--------------------------------------------- +We anticipate that with cairo 1.2, toolkits will begin to use cairo +for printing on systems that use PostScript as the spool format. To +support this use case, we have added 4 new function calls that are +specific to the PostScript backend: + + cairo_ps_surface_set_size + cairo_ps_surface_dsc_comment + cairo_ps_surface_dsc_begin_setup + cairo_ps_surface_dsc_begin_page_setup + +These functions allow variation of the page size/orientation from one +page to the next in the PostScript output. They also allow the toolkit +to provide per-document and per-page printer control options in a +device-independent way, (for example, by using PPD options and +emitting them as DSC comments into the PostScript output). This should +allow toolkits to provide very fine-grained control of many options +available in printers, (media size, media type, tray selection, etc.). + +SVG backend: builds by default, version control +----------------------------------------------- +The SVG backend continues to see major improvements. It is expected +that the SVG backend will be a supported backend in the 1.2 +release. This backend will now be built by default if its dependencies +(freetype and libxml2) are met. + +Additionally, the SVG backend now has flexibility with regard to what +version of SVG it targets. It will target SVG 1.1 by default, which +will require image fallbacks for some of the "fancier" cairo +compositing operators. Or with the following new function calls: + + cairo_svg_surface_restrict_to_version + cairo_svg_get_versions + cairo_svg_version_to_string + +it can be made to target SVG 1.2 in which there is native support for +these compositing operators. + +Bug fixes +--------- +At least the following bugs have been fixed since the 1.1.2 snapshot: + +crash at XRenderAddGlyphs +https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4705 + +Can't build cairo-1.1.2 on opensolaris due to " void function cannot return value" +https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6792 + +Missing out-of-memory check at gfx/cairo/cairo/src/cairo-atsui-font.c:185 +https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336129 + +A couple of memory leaks. + Snapshot 1.1.2 (2006-04-25 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>) ========================================================== This is the first in a series of snapshots working toward the upcoming |