* Clean up the API in preparation for freezing and release. * Implement a PDF backend. * Make a more interesting PS backend, (other than the current "giant-image for every page" approach). * Figure out what to do with DPI for image/png backends. * Change stroke code to go through one giant polygon. This will fix problems with stroking self-intersecting paths. * Implement cairo_stroke_path, (very easy to do after the above change is done). * Fix the intersection problem, (see reference to Hobby's paper mentioned in cairo_traps.c). * Add a new cairo_text_glyphs function (a sort of bridge between the toy and the real text API): > void > cairo_text_glyphs (cairo_t *cr, const unsigned char *utf8, > cairo_glyph_t *glyphs, int *num_glyphs); > > with num_glyphs as an input-output parameter. The behavior of this > function would be such that calling: > > cairo_text_glyphs (cr, string, glyphs, &num_glyphs); > cairo_show_glyphs (cr, glyphs, num_glyphs); > > would be equivalent too: > > cairo_show_text (cr, string); > > as long as the original size of glyphs/num_glyphs was large > enough. * Implement dashing for cairo_curve_to. * Implement support for programmatic patterns, (ie. figure out how to do gradients the Right Way). * Implement cairo_arc_to. * Fix support for old X servers so that it is not swamped with image transport. The key idea is to assume that nothing external to cairo will be drawing to the same drawable after it is handed to cairo. Beyond that, we might actually provide support for cooperating with external entities by adding one or more of the following functions: cairo_flush cairo_erase cairo_mark_dirty * Re-implement the trapezoid rasterization algorithm according to the new "specification". * Stroking degenerate paths should still draw caps. Round caps are easy; square should probably draw an axis aligned square. * Verification, profiling, optimization. A comparison with PostScript ============================ Here's a list of several classes of PostScript operators indicating which operators have rough equivalents in cairo and which do not. In general, the name of a cairo function corresponding to a PostScript operator can be obtained by inserting a '_' between each word and prefixing it with "cairo_". For example, "cairo_move_to" corresponds to the PostScript "moveto". In cases where the name of the cairo function deviates from this convention, or when the behavior of the cairo function is significantly different, the change is noted in parentheses below. This list is not exhaustive, (there are definitely some minor (major?) semantic deviations that are not noted below). Also, this list is almost certainly out of date with respect to the current cairo implementation. Caveat lector. Operators that are not yet in cairo, but probably should be: arcto, strokepath, rectclip?, clipsave/restore?, setstrokeadjust?, currentdash, grestoreall?, initgraphics?, currentgstate?, setgstate?, erasepage?, setsmoothness? Painting operators ------------------ in cairo: stroke, fill, eofill (set_fill_rule/fill), image (show_surface) not in cairo: erasepage, rectstroke, rectfill, shfill, colorimage, imagemask Path construction operators --------------------------- in cairo: arc, arcn (arc_negative), newpath, moveto, rmoveto (rel_move_to), lineto, rlineto (rel_line_to), curveto, rcurveto (rel_curve_to), closepath, currentpoint, charpath (text_path), pathforall (current_path), flattenpath (current_path_flat) not in cairo: arct, arcto, reversepath, strokepath, clippath, pathbbox Clipping -------- in cairo: clip, eoclip (set_fill_rule/clip) not in cairo: initclip, rectclip, clipsave, cliprestore Graphics state operators ------------------------ in cairo: setlinewidth, currentlinewidth, setlinecap, currentlinecap, setlinejoin, currentlinejoin, setmiterlimit, currentmiterlimit, setdash not in cairo: setstrokeadjust, currentstrokeadjust, currentdash Color specification operators ----------------------------- in cairo: setrgbcolor, currentcolor not in cairo: setcolor, setgray, currentgray, currentrgbcolor, sethsbcolor, currenthsbcolor, setcmykcolor, currentcmykcolor, setcolorspace, currentcolorspace Form and pattern operators -------------------------- in cairo: setpattern, makepattern (lock_pattern) not in cairo: execform Whole-state manipulation ------------------------ in cairo: gsave (save), grestore (restore) not in cairo: grestoreall, initgraphics, gstate, currentgstate, setgstate Coordinate system and matrix operators -------------------------------------- in cairo: identmatrix (identity_matrix), initmatrix (default_matrix), setmatrix, translate, scale, rotate, concatmatrix, currentmatrix, transform (transform_point), dtransform (transform_distance) not in cairo: matrix, defaultmatrix, concat, itransform, idtransform, invertmatrix Insideness testing ------------------ in cairo: infill, instroke, ineofill (set_fill_rule/in_fill) not in cairo: inufill, inustroke, inueofill Device setup ------------ in cairo: showpage, copypage not in cairo: setpagedevice, currentpagedevice, nulldevice Glyph and font operators ------------------------ in cairo: currentfont, definefont (font_create_for_ft_face), undefine_font (font_destroy), findfont (font_create), makefont (transform_font), setfont, scalefont, selectfont, show (show_text), stringwidth (x/y in text_extents), xyshow (glyph_show -- but ignoring current_point and using absolute positions) not in cairo, (and likely not needed): composefont, rootfont, ashow, widthshow, awidthshow, xshow, xyshow, yshow, glyphshow, cshow, kshow, FontDirectory, GlobalFontDirectory, StandardEncoding, ISOLatin1Encoding, findencoding, setcachedevice, setcachedevice2, setcharwidth Graphics state operators (device-dependent) ------------------------------------------- in cairo: setflat (set_tolerance), currentflat (current_tolerance) not in cairo: sethalftone, currenthalftone, setscreen, currentscreen, setcolorscreen, currentcolorscreen, settransfer, currenttransfer, setcolortransfer, currentcolortransfer, setblackgeneration, currentblackgeneration, setundercolorremoval, currentundercolorremoval, setcolorrendering, currentcolorrendering, setoverprint, currentoverprint, setsmoothness, currentsmoothness PostScript operators never to be in cairo ----------------------------------------- Operator Stack Manipulation Operators, Arithmetic and Math Operators, Array Operators, Packed Array Operators, Dictionary Operators, String Operators, Rational,Boolean,and Bitwise Operators, Control Operators, Type,Attribute,and Conversion Operators, File Operators, Resource Operators, Virtual Memory Operators, Miscellaneous Operators, Interpreter Parameter Operators, Errors, User Path Operators