[Canvasdraw-users] CD 5.4 Released

[Antonio S. <sc...@te...>]

Hi All,

The 5.4 version of the CD - Canvas Draw graphics toolkit has been released. 
 
You can find the list of changes and files for download at: 
 
  http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/cd/   

The most notable new feature is the Cairo context plus driver. It can be
used as a context plus driver for GDK providing alpha and anti-aliasing.
Cairo has also support for CD_PRINTER in Windows (native dialog) and in UNIX
(GTK dialog). Along with additional drivers for SVG, PDF, PS and IMAGERGB
not available using context plus.

Also CD now has support for creation, stroke and filling of paths in all
drivers using Begin/Vertex/End and an additional function PathSet, called
for each segment in the path.

The new CD_GL driver is implemented using only OpenGL functions, and can
provide an alternative for those applications that need to render very large
polygons. Text support is provided by the FTGL library using the Freetype
library.

Finally we added to the documentation a screenshot page illustrating the
output produced by all drivers.

IMPORTANT: the main library in Linux and BSD is now the GDK base driver. The
X11 base driver library was renamed to cdx11 on those systems.
 
Best Regards,
Antonio Scuri