[cairo] Shouldn't Cairo use/offer degrees rather than radians?

Andreas Lobinger lobingera at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 11:56:47 UTC 2017


Hello colleague,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:34 PM, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
> For arcs, I don't see a similarly clear-cut approach.

Arcs are (for several reasons, and PS/PDF does the same) dissected
into splines. cairo-arc.c describes the method and references some
papers. With some internal calls (_cairo etc) you can even ask how
many segments, what tolerance etc.


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