Re: Anti-Aliased 2D drawing

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Scott Robert Ladd <gnome coyotegulch com> writes:

> 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.

Have you taken a look at libgnomecanvas?  Despite the name, it only
depends on GTK+, and it allows anti-aliased line drawings of arbitrary
size.

I don't know, but I suspect it will be replaced by, or depend upon,
Cairo at some point, but it's mature and usable right now.


Regards,
Roger

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