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authorCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2005-01-21 12:48:11 +0000
committerCarl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>2005-01-21 12:48:11 +0000
commit90689370267f3c02d6be62e3e8c85cccdad6f577 (patch)
tree1b7f0d310ac5dfaf2bf528e62cf4ad7a2116e87b
parentf697490665735c5b5a469b81b16e8075eb355ba7 (diff)
Increment CAIRO_VERSION to 0.3.0
Add notes for snapshot 0.3.0
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--NEWS171
-rw-r--r--configure.in2
3 files changed, 176 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 975adb52e..48c0cb466 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2005-01-21 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
+ * configure.in: Increment CAIRO_VERSION to 0.3.0
+
+ * NEWS: Add notes for snapshot 0.3.0
+
* test/fill_rule-ref.png:
* test/leaky_polygon-ref.png:
* test/line_width-ref.png: Update reference images for new
@@ -63,8 +67,6 @@
Remove all backend-specific prototypes, (as they are now in their
own header files).
- Remove deprecated
-
* src/cairo.c (cairo_sane_state): Remove printf.
* src/cairo-features.h.in: Convert to utf-8. Use the proper name
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8465aaa3f..6bb4c13c7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,174 @@
+Snapshot 0.3.0 (2005-01-21 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
+==========================================================
+Major API changes
+-----------------
+1) The public header files will no longer be directly installed into
+ the system include directory. They will now be installed in a
+ subdirectory named "cairo", (eg. in /usr/include/cairo rather than
+ in /usr/include).
+
+ As always, the easiest way for applications to discover the
+ location of the header file is to let pkg-config generate the
+ necessary -I CFLAGS and -L/-l LDFLAGS. For example:
+
+ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo` -o foo foo.c
+
+ IMPORTANT: Users with old versions of cairo installed will need to
+ manually remove cairo.h and cairo-features.h from the
+ system include directories in order to prevent the old
+ headers from being used in preference to the new ones.
+
+2) The backend-specific portions of the old monolithic cairo.h have
+ been split out into individual public header files. The new files
+ are:
+
+ cairo-atsui.h
+ cairo-ft.h
+ cairo-glitz.h
+ cairo-pdf.h
+ cairo-png.h
+ cairo-ps.h
+ cairo-quartz.h
+ cairo-xcb.h
+ cairo-xlib.h
+
+ Applications will need to be modified to explicitly include the new
+ header files where appropriate.
+
+3) There are two new graphics backends in this snapshot, a PDF
+ backend, and a Quartz backend. There is also one new font backend,
+ ATSUI.
+
+PDF backend
+-----------
+Kristian Høgsberg has contributed a new backend to allow cairo-based
+applications to generate PDF output. The interface for creating a PDF
+surface is similar to that of the PS backend, as can be seen in
+cairo-pdf.h:
+
+ void
+ cairo_set_target_pdf (cairo_t *cr,
+ FILE *file,
+ double width_inches,
+ double height_inches,
+ double x_pixels_per_inch,
+ double y_pixels_per_inch);
+
+ cairo_surface_t *
+ cairo_pdf_surface_create (FILE *file,
+ double width_inches,
+ double height_inches,
+ double x_pixels_per_inch,
+ double y_pixels_per_inch);
+
+Once a PDF surface has been created, applications can draw to it as
+any other cairo surface.
+
+This code is still a bit rough around the edges, and does not yet
+support clipping, surface patterns, or transparent gradients. Text
+only works with TrueType fonts at this point and only black text is
+supported. Also, the size of the generated PDF files is currently
+quite big.
+
+Kristian is still actively developing this backend, so watch this
+space for future progress.
+
+Quartz backend
+--------------
+Calum Robinson has contributed a new backend to allow cairo
+applications to target native Mac OS X windows through the Quartz
+API. Geoff Norton integrated this backend into the current
+configure-based build system, while Calum also provided Xcode build
+support in the separate "macosx" module available in CVS.
+
+The new interface, available in cairo-quartz.h, is as follows:
+
+ void
+ cairo_set_target_quartz_context (cairo_t *cr,
+ CGContextRef context,
+ int width,
+ int height);
+
+ cairo_surface_t *
+ cairo_quartz_surface_create (CGContextRef context,
+ int width,
+ int height);
+
+There is an example program available in CVS in cairo-demo/quartz. It
+is a port of Keith Packard's fdclock program originally written for
+the xlib backend. A screenshot of this program running on Mac OS X is
+available here:
+
+ http://cairographics.org/~cworth/images/fdclock-quartz.png
+
+ATSUI font backend
+------------------
+This new font backend complements the Quartz backend by allowing
+applications to use native font selection on Mac OS X. The interface
+is a single new function:
+
+ cairo_font_t *
+ cairo_atsui_font_create (ATSUStyle style);
+
+Minor API changes
+-----------------
+Prototype for non-existent function "cairo_ft_font_destroy" removed.
+
+Now depends on libpixman 0.1.2 or newer, (0.1.3 is being released
+concurrently and has some useful performance improvements).
+
+Default paint color is now opaque black, (was opaque white). Default
+background color is transparent (as before).
+
+Renamed "struct cairo" to "struct _cairo" to free up the word "cairo"
+from the C++ identifier name space.
+
+Functions returning multiple return values through provided pointers,
+(cairo_matrix_get_affine, cairo_current_point, and
+cairo_current_color_rgb), will now accept NULL for values the user
+wants to ignore.
+
+CAIRO_HAS_FREETYPE_FONT has now been renamed to CAIRO_HAS_FT_FONT.
+
+Performance improvements
+------------------------
+Alexander Larsson provided some fantastic performance improvements
+yielding a 10000% performance improvement in his application, (when
+also including his performance work in libpixman-0.1.3). These include
+
+ * Fixed handling of cache misses.
+
+ * Creating intermediate clip surfaces at the minimal size required.
+
+ * Eliminating roundtrips when creating intermediate Xlib surfaces.
+
+Implementation
+--------------
+Major re-work of font metrics system by Keith Packard. Font metrics
+should now be much more reliable.
+
+Glitz backend
+-------------
+Updated for glitz-0.3.0.
+Bug fixes in reference counting.
+
+Test suite
+----------
+New tests for cache crashing, rotating text, improper filling of
+complex polygons, and leaky rasterization.
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+Fixed assertion failure when selecting the same font multiple times in
+sequence.
+
+Fixed reference counting so cache_destroy functions work.
+
+Remove unintended copyright statement from files generated with
+PostScript backend.
+
+Fixed to eliminate new warnings from gcc 3.4 and gcc 4.
+
Snapshot 0.2.0 (2004-10-27 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
===========================================================
New license: LGPL/MPL
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4dd539ea9..61d9adbae 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT(src/cairo.h)
dnl ===========================================================================
# Package version number, (as distinct from shared library version)
-CAIRO_VERSION=0.2.0
+CAIRO_VERSION=0.3.0
# libtool shared library version