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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/13/2010 09:00 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, "Torsten Hüter" wrote:
>
>> I've choosen Cairo, because it runs on most platforms well and
>> supports rendering to pdf or postscript as well. OpenGL is very
>> interesting for combining the 3D-Models with a 2D pcb tool (just
>> overlaying the 3D models) and of course because of the hardware
>> acceleration that modern graphics cards offer.
>
> Isn't Cairo still 100% sw on linux? gerbv using cairo is *slower* than
> hell :P Why not the usual wx DC operations?
>
> BTW never missed the 3d view, all the inspection is done on gerbers :D



>
> Anyway I still want the 'old' primitives as references (grayed out or
> something) instead of the traditional xor artifacts.


The meaning of your last sentence is not clear to me.  Can you clarify
and elaborate please what you mean.