[Cairo] Color transforms

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 23:33, Keith Packard wrote:
> Around 20 o'clock on Jul 16, David Forster wrote:
> 
> > But what's the best way to fix PostScript? 
> 
> My plan was to have cairo emit trapezoids instead of higher-level 
> primitives.  This will avoid the bugs in PostScript and provide figures 
> which exactly match the screen.  The alternative would be to accept some 
> device-dependent variation in the results, and I'm not willing to live 
> with that.

Well, I would strongly suggest against emitting text as trapezoids :-)

I think you'll have to accept some device dependent variation of
text; downloading client side fonts is the right way to do text,
so you have a guaranteed font, but you don't have any real guarantees
about how the rasterizer will rasterize it in detail.

I don't know if that has implcations for what variation to accept
elsewhere.

Regards,
						Owen