Hi!
> >The cairo branch has seen a great deal of improvement, and I'd love some
> >testing feedback. Is it fast enough.. are there any rendering artefacts
> >I've missed, have any behaviours changed (which shouldn't have).
>
> I have updated to the latest head on the cairo branch
> (e3d0a2f6a09cce161021a15ba9a3230bfeafa531)
>
> Most of the ddrawing artifacts are gone that I observed previously.
>

Is it possible to have an unstable release (1.5.1?) soon?

> Various observed behaviors though:
>
>       - With the dark-bg color scheme, all the grid lines are solid lines.
>       - It seems that the bounding box for 90 and 270 degree rotated text
>         is slightly larger than the text.
>       - If I zoom in close to the 72 point text in drawing_primitives.sch
>         gschem consumes a minimum of 200-300M of RAM (and never
>         decreases).  Not sure this is worth worrying about.
>       - cairo gschem doesn't render as fast as gdk gschem on my 1.8GHz
>         laptop.  Not surprising really.
>       - Rendered schematics sure look pretty.
>
> >I've coded up a Pango renderer subclass which draws overbars (although
> >it uses a magic constant for positioning them). Does this work for the
> >font gschem picks up on your system? Do the overbars look OK?
>
>       The font and overbars look mostly correct on my laptop.
>
>                                                               -Ales
>

Wojciech Kazubski


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