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@@ -1,5 +1,79 @@ -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 ------------------- |