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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2004-04-06 20:13:11 +0000
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2004-04-06 20:13:11 +0000
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Added notes for snapshot 0.1.20.
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-2003-12-16 cairo-0.1.17 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>
-===================================================
+Snapshot 0.1.20 (2004-04-06 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
+========================================================
+New pattern API
+---------------
+David Reveman has contributed a new pattern API which enable linear
+and radial gradient patterns in addition to the original surface-based
+patterns. The significant new top-level functions are:
+
+ cairo_pattern_create_linear
+ cairo_pattern_create_radial
+ cairo_pattern_create_for_surface
+ cairo_pattern_add_color_stop
+ cairo_set_pattern
+
+Any code using the old cairo_set_pattern, (which accepted a
+cairo_surface_t rather than a cairo_pattern_t), will need to be
+updated.
+
+Update to XCB backend
+---------------------
+The XCB backend is now enabled by default, (use ./configure
+--disable-xcb to turn it off).
+
+Faster clipping
+---------------
+Graydon Hoare has added optimizations that make cairo_clip much faster
+when the path is a pixel-aligned, rectangular region.
+
+Bug fixes.
+
+Snapshot 0.1.19 (2004-02-24 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
+========================================================
+New PNG backend
+---------------
+Olivier Andrieu contributed a new PNG backend. It builds on the
+existing image backend to make it easy to render "directly" to a
+.png file. The user never needs to deal with the actual image
+buffer. The significant new functions are:
+
+ cairo_set_target_png
+ cairo_png_surface_create
+
+The PNG backend is not enabled by default so that by default there is
+not a new dependency on libpng. Use ./configure --enable-png to enable
+this backend.
+
+Snapshot 0.1.18 (2004-02-17 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
+========================================================
+Path query functionality
+------------------------
+It's now possible to query the current path. The two new functions
+are:
+
+ cairo_current_path
+ cairo_current_path_flat
+
+Each function accepts a number of callback functions that will be
+called for each element in the path (move_to, line_to, curve_to,
+close_path). The cairo_current_path_flat function does not accept a
+curve_to callback. Instead, all curved portions of the path will be
+converted to line segments, (within the current tolerance value). This
+can be handy for doing things like text-on-path without having to
+manually interpolate bezier splines.
+
+New XCB backend
+---------------
+Jamey Sharp has contributed a second X backend that uses the new, lean
+XCB library rather than Xlib. It cannot currently be compiled at the
+same time as the Xlib backend. See ./configure --enable-xcb.
+
+Build fixes for cygwin.
+
+Bug fixes.
+
+Snapshot 0.1.17 (2003-12-16 Carl Worth <cworth@isi.edu>)
+========================================================
Better text support
-------------------