Gregory John Casamento wrote:

> Although art is an excellent backend, the library it's based on,
> libart, is currently unmaintained, and cairo is actively maintained
> and more Postscript like.    Xlib renders poorly, but is fast on very
slow systems.
> [...] 
> Allow me to rephrase...  xlib renders fonts poorly in some cases.
> Xlib renders graphics just fine.

Xlib backend does not support rotation. Last time I tried the
semi-transparent
masks in Xlib, Xlib gave different results than art and art looked much
better.
So I guess there are a few problems with Xlib graphics, too.

I do hope that cairo backend will solve most or all the problems we have
on Unix.

--Tima


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