Andrew Ziem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Cairo working for OpenOffice.org? If not, when? On Windows and > Linux? Just from looking at vector graphics in OOo Draw 2.2.1, it > looks like Cairo is not yet here. > Hi Andrew,
cairo is working since quite some time under Linux (though not yet included in the packages provided from openoffice.org - for various reasons). For Windows, Tor Lillquist made it running, current efforts are in CWS cairoquartz (to harmonize the various platform backends, and provide a cairocanvas version also for native Aqua). Note: this is all slideshow-only, currently. Work to have Draw/Impress running on top of canvas is under way in CWS aw033. > How does DirectX10 relate to Cairo? > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70519 > http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/directx_based_slideshow_now_opensource > First off, it's DirectX5 and DirectX9. Second, this is a canvas implementation StarOffice has shipped since 2.0 (or StarOffice8, respectively), when cairo on Windows was nascent at best. And last, but not least, DX is mostly used for fast bitmap operations and alpha blending, where it's just orders of magnitudes faster than any software solution. The basic rendering is performed via GDI+ - we could easily replace that with a cairo renderer, if we want. Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
