Talk:Cairo (graphics)

History

How old is this project? -- Beland 00:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

first post on the mailing list is dated Apr 17 2003.

Correct spelling of cairo

The correct spelling of cairo is described here http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2005-May/003853.html.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:57, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Relation to OpenVG

Does somebody know about the relation of cairo to the OpenVG Standard? Should that be mentioned as similiar technology? --Tali (talk) 09:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

They are somewhat related; OpenVG is a bit lower-level than cairo. There is initial work on an OpenVG backend for cairo[1], the idea being that where possible, OpenVG will use hardware acceleration for cairo's graphics operations; however due to mismatches in capabilities, a lot of cairo operations trigger a software fallback with this backend (ie - no acceleration at all). The primary target for this is AFAIK handheld devices that support OpenVG, eg the Nokia N800. Bazzargh (talk) 10:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Clarity

As a programmer I could vaguely guess what Cairo is for at a first glance through article, but I do not think this article makes it clear to someone not versed in the field. Is there a way the purpose of cairo could be made more clear, perhaps through simple examples? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CallipygianSchoolGirl (talk • contribs) 04:45, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

FontForge uses Cairo?

I don't think this is true. It uses the sources of freetype but only if you compile it with TrueType hinting. FontForge uses only the X toolkit for its own graphics and fonts. VG ☎ 18:05, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

The development version uses cairo:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2285a9d20810160744t360df77fgaa430d6945954c0a%40mail.gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.139.98 (talk) 09:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Ah, this is a relatively recent development (since mid-Oct). I didn't upgrade my ff in a while. VG ☎ 09:44, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Releases

The info box lists 1.12.18 as a 'Preview Release', but actually it was a Stable Release. It was the last stable release on the old 1.12 series, and was just bugfixes. It may not be worth even mentioniong; the current Stable Release is 1.14.2, and should be preferred for most users. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BryceHarrington (talk • contribs) 20:36, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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