Re: ChangeLog Demon and 'Standard - Outline' (was Re: Dia ChangeLog reportfor 2007-11-06 13:01:39 UTC (Tue 06 Nov))

["Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>]

Hans Breuer said:
> On 05.11.2007 23:15, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> There's an
>> issue with filling in some letters, otherwise it looks nice.
>>
> Unfortunately I dont know a way to make the filling respect holes within
> the glyphs. The path data delivered by cairo just consist out of different
> outlines, the first of a glyph usually the outer shape. When that is
> filled
> for a glyph like '#' the following hole filling does not matter anymore.
>
> It may be possible to substract overlapping outlines, but cairo does not
> give any hint on that either so some beziergon 'collision detection' would
> be required. But even with this information reconstructed the best Dia's
> beziergon currently can do is 'blanking'.

The EPS w/ Pango fonts does the right thing, so we can get the correct
data if we need to.  While the beziergon does allow holes, it only has one
curve, so I guess we're out of luck.  While having rotated text is nice,
I'm not sure I like having the letters a, b, d, e, g, o, p, q, and r
wrongly printed.

-Lars