* Write a PostScript backend. * Add a few new, needed functions: cairo_show_page cairo_copy_page cairo_flush cairo_erase cairo_mark_dirty * Add a "real" text API in addition to the current "toy" API. * Implement text support for the image backend. * Re-implement pattern support with a more PostScript-like API. * Verification, profiling, optimization. * Re-implement the trapezoid rasterization algorithm according to the new "specification". 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 Also, this list is almost certainly out of date with respect to the current Cairo implementation.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. Oerators that are not yet in Cairo, but probably should be: arcto, strokepath, rectclip?, clipsave/restore?, setstrokeadjust?, currentdash, grestoreall?, initgraphics?, currentgstate?, setgstate?, insideness testing?, showpage, copypage?, 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) not in Cairo: arct, arcto, flattenpath, reversepath, strokepath, clippath, pathbbox, pathforall 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 ------------------ not in Cairo: infill, instroke, inufill, inustroke, ineofill, inueofill Device setup ------------ not in Cairo: showpage, copypage, 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