Re: [Lib2geom-devel] Using lib2geom for doing Stroke to Path

[Krzysztof K. <twe...@gm...>]

2012/8/29 Shriramana Sharma <sa...@gm...>:
> Hello. I'm totally new to the internals of lib2geom. Basically I want
> to use lib2geom from within my drawing to do Stroke to Path (i.e. find
> the envelope of a stroked path) on a path which has transformations
> applied to it, just like I am currently able to do in Inkscape. Can
> anyone please point me to where in the source code I can find this --
> I am somewhat lost.

This functionality is not yet present in lib2geom. Right now it is
only present in Inkscape's old path manipulation and rasterization
library, livarot, which is written in a way that absolutely nobody
understands.

> BTW since basically I am only requiring the mathematical capabilities
> of the library, I hope my application need not run-time depend on GTK,
> Cairo etc? (I understand Boost would be a build-time dependency since
> the concepts are implemented using it, but I am concerned only about
> the run-time dependencies.)

Lib2geom does not require Cairo or GTK.

Regards, Krzysztof