Re: Clarification on getBBox() with shapes of zero width

In most cases nobody wants this so why clutter up UA code with it. In the
extremely rare cases you need it I don't see why the svg file shouldn't
have an "ugly hack" rather than having dozens of lines of mostly unused
ugly hack UA code handle it.

Robert

On 7 August 2012 19:47, Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Robert Longson <longsonr@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> If you want the shape included then give it a small non-zero
>> width/height hidden visibility.
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> Making a rectangle of zero width not render is logical, but it is still a
> legal rectangle object and can be interacted with, so it should have
> geometry semantics.
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> Giving zero widths/heights a small value is an ugly hack.  There must be a
> better way.
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> Is there no bottleneck in Cairo where you could discard ineligible shapes?
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