On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:56:44 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:

> Cairo has opacity built in, so no need for XRender calls. ARGB, where A
> is opacity. You may / may not need to set the surface up for it.
> 
> As suggested for PCB, drawing layers to spearate off-screen surfaces
> (from cairo_surface_create_similar()), then compositing layer by layer
> onto the main drawable might be the way forward.

Has anyone checked how inkscape does transparency? This app seems to cope 
with thousands strokes and polygons without crippling delay.  

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