Re: Anti-Aliased 2D drawing

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>I'm working on a program that draws relatively simple diagrams --
>involving lines of different styles and a few arcs -- on top of a base
>PNG image. Doing this using the standard GTK facilities isn't difficult,
>but the result is... well, rather rough (jagged, actually). As I
>understand it, Gtk+ does not support anti-aliasing natively.

use the anti-aliased GnomeCanvas. don't be put off by the name, it has
no particular connection to Gnome anymore. create an AA canvas, whic
will then use libart_lgpl to do AA-2d drawing.

the only downside to the Canvas is the fact that nobody really plans
to support it as-is long term.

--p