[GRASS-dev] Re: raster offset with cairo driver

[Lars Ahlzen]

Hamish wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying out the new Cairo driver. To make things easier I just
> added  support for it to d.out.file: use the -c flag with a raster
> image format.

Thanks, any testing is certainly appreciated! Having d.out support 
makes a lot of sense, too.

> As AFAICT there is no user documentation, so I also added a small
> wiki page for it:  http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Cairo_driver
> 
> It is missing a disiplay/drivers/cairo/description.html page, modeled
> after the equivalent PNG driver page.

I'd happily add a HTML user documentation page, similar to those of the 
other drivers. Where would I post it once it's done?

> There's a problem in that the raster data is being rendered offset
> vs. the vector data...

> There's another problem with fonts- True/FreeType fonts gets
> scrambled...

I see that Glynn already committed fixes to CVS for these problems 
(thanks Glynn!) which seem to work well.

/ Lars

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Lars Ahlzen
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