Fwd: [LIBART] libart development plans ?

[Craig Tiller <ctiller bigpond net au>]

oops... sent this to the wrong place

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> From: Craig Tiller <ctiller bigpond net au>
> Date: Sun Sep 30, 2001  11:49:44  AM Australia/Darwin
> To: k wetzel welfen-netz com
> Subject: Re: [LIBART] libart development plans ?
>
> I was curious about contributing to libart also; I'd like to get it 
> able to be hw accelerated,
> say by using opengl for compositing or some such thing. I'd also like 
> to see it have the
> rendering module able to load in (from .so's) extra renderers... It'd 
> be useful for what I'm
> doing :)
>
> Can anyone offer any intelligence about how hard that would be?
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> On Saturday, September 29, 2001, at 08:21  PM, k.wetzel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The libart-hackers list is pretty silent. Development of LibArt
> > seems to move at slow pace if at all, I figure this is because other
> > things are more important now ?  What are the plans for libart
> > development ?  I'd like to contribute to libart development,
> > especially speed optimizations. Test cases/demos to check how good and
> > how fast libart is would be nice. Did anybody attempt to do some
> > profiling and has clues where optimizations were needed ? Any figures
> > on how libart compares to Quartz as shipped with 10.1 regarding
> > speed/quality in respect to the features supported by libart ?
> > What has come of "full PDF 1.4 support for libart" ?
> >
> > Seems like new displays supporting 133 up to 300 ppi call for using a
> > vector-based engine between widgets/application code and the underlying
> > raster device (screen). So making this as fast as feasible is
> > important IMHO!
> >
> > kai
> >
> >
> >
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