On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 14:20 +0000, J. Ali Harlow wrote: > On 12/01/05 14:07:59, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > I think a GDI[+] backend will be useful in any case for printing and > > for older Windows on older computers, so time spent working on one > > won't be a loss even if OpenGL or Direct3D is how we get things > > hardware accelerated. > > Excuse my complete ignorance of cairo, but how do you see printing > working long term? Can cairo use a GDI+ backend for printing and a > Direct3D backend for screen display for the same application or do we > need to provide one combined backend? There is no problem with using multiple backends... we have that on Unix currently, with image, RENDER, OpenGL/Glitz, PDF. What we do need is a single font system shared by all backends, but that shouldn't be a problem here. > If the former then starting with > a GDI+ backend certainly seems like the way forward to me since we'll > need it anyway. That's my thought. Regards, Owen
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