Re: Cairo and ISO C++ from Jon Cruz on 2014-02-28 (www-svg@w3.org from February 2014)

From: Jon Cruz <jon@joncruz.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:11:55 -0800
To: Tavmjong Bah <tav.w3c@gmail.com>
Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Message-Id: <26CEBB83-B71F-42E7-B639-792E77818E28@joncruz.org>

On Jan 21, 2014, at 1:47 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is a proposal before the ISO C++ standards group for a technical
> specification for 2D graphics based on the Cairo API.[1][2] It seems to
> have gained some traction. My question here is what is missing in the
> Cairo API that would be useful for rendering SVG?
> 
> Inkscape currently uses Cairo for rendering SVG so I have also asked on
> the inkscape-devel mailing list.


One key thing: support for colorspaces other than sRGB.

Received on Friday, 28 February 2014 22:12:26 UTC