[GEM Development] Cairo Graphics

[Thomas Clayton]

BTW group;

I've 'cheated' and made photcopy of the article in the Feb. 1983 BYTE
for myself (- and others?).

Tom C

--- Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Group:
> 
> >From the VOICE(*) website, to the Hobbes download link, to the
> source
> site,
> 
> http://www.cairographics.org/
> 
> where one (well, me, I) learn something I didn't know existed before.
> 
> "
> Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output
> devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window
> System, Win32, image buffers, and PostScript, PDF, and SVG file
> output.
> Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, and
> XCB.
> 
> Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media
> while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when
> available
> (eg. through the X Render Extension). 
> "
> Read the rest, on-line, if you want.
> 
> 
> Then by a strange quirk while packaging up BYTEs from 1983 to send to
> someone in WA, USA, I look inside the Feb. issue and find an article
> about the GSX to CP/M and a portable graphics standard that DRI was
> trying to implement. All very PREcursor to GEM but ... remeniscent to
> someone looking back. Hmmm.
> 
> GSX = Graphics System eXtension
> 
> Anyway, Cairo is VERY 'post' GEM but 'neat' and I thought some of you
> might have an interest in knowing about its existance.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Thomas Clayton
> 
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