Re: SVG libraries

[Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge@...>]

As a note, I don't recommend Cairo at all. It's nice until you have a
large bitmap that you're trying to scale smaller. In this case, Cairo
(or more exactly the pixman library used by Cairo) uses the worst
style of sampling possible. This kindof goes into it here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com/msg18099.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/pixman@lists.freedesktop.org/msg00202.html

The basic gist of it is, even if you tell Cairo to use the highest
quality possible sub-sampling, it will always use nearest neighbor
when downscaling the image.

Timothy


> AFAIR this is only to create SVG surface (ie output file) using Cairo,
> not for generating images for already generated svg file.
>
>> There are some luacairo bindings floating around.
>> wes
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