Hi,

I was in talk with developers of Karbon, vector-drawing program for KDE (will 
be part of upcoming KOffice 1.2) 
Screenshots of Karbon14 are avilable here: 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rwlbuis/karbon/pics/

They have asked me:
* what video drivers offer hardware support for RENDER ext.?
// checked http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html and found no asnwer for 
this
* are there any plans to migrate API similar to libart [1], [2] to X or one of 
its extensions?
Due to recent announcement by Keith of experimental Cubic Bezier Splines 
rendering, I guess it's really interesting question *how* (*if*) 
PostScript-like rendering APi can be integrated into X.
It would be nice to have one unified APi, instead of different implementations 
& multiple APIs.
libart (libart2_LGPL) will become pargt of standard distribution soon, as it 
would be required for upcoming KOffice 1.2 and used by some GNOME programs. 
It's already available for Mandrake, Rawhide, PLD Linux [3]

[1] http://www.levien.com/libart/
[2] http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/expo/lw-wednesday-canvas.html
[3] 
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libart&submit=Search+...&system=&arch=

I have cc:ed Karbon14 authors, they are not subscribed to the list - so pls 
cc: them as well in your answers.

Thanks and best regards,
-- 

Vadim Plessky
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