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A PostScript-like API for the X Render Extension

Posted by timothy on from the extensible dept.

Pivot writes: "Carl Worth and Keith Packard have started building a PostScript-like API for drawing using the X Render extension. There are two modules, called 'Xr' (the "rendering part") and 'Xc' (the "compositing part", which is a layer on top of Render which will eventually grow to a client-side Render emulator). The API supports only cubic Bezier splines, leaving other splines out of the library, similar to PostScript. Check out the initial announcement on the Render mailing list, and some example shots. Shurely this will remind some of NeWS, cowritten by another well known character."

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  4. XFREE matures GNOME by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hi there, i am a bit dissappointed the way xfree matures in the past 1-2 months. for me they have included to much GNOME related material into the xfree CVS tree.

    - pkgconfig got added to the xfree cvs tree
    - libxml got added to the xfree cvs tree
    - fontconfig got added to the xfree cvs tree
    - XFT2 got added to the xfree cvs tree

    the last 2 named ones are not that big of a harm but the fact these pkgconfig things and libxml things got added made me sick. there are people outside that seriously dont like gnome and use for example enlightenment or KDE now they need to deal with these kind of installed files. it really looks like that more and more apps not gnome related add more and more gnome related features which makes things start to suck totally.

  5. Umm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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