[Image-SIG] Aggdraw: curveto()

Joao S. O. Bueno gwidion at mpc.com.br
Thu Sep 25 00:13:23 CEST 2008


On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Yanone wrote:
> hello everyone,
>
> it seems that this is a known problem: the curveto() function of
> aggdraw draws straight lines instead of curves, ignoring the given
> bezier control points. the last post i found about this dates back to
> march 2006, and even the developer version of aggdraw via svn didn't
> change this.
> if i could code in C i would have a look at it myself, but i'm helpless.
>
> could this somehow be solved?
> or is there any other way of drawing postscript curves into an image?
> the Path() method of reportlab's renderPM isn't implemented yet and i
> would like to refrain from generating a PDF file and the turn it into
> an image through imagemagick or something as i need this for a server
> implementation.
>
> many thanks and best regards, yanone

Hi there - 
Sorry,  i missed some of the context for this thread, so I don'tṫ know what 
you have already tried -
but you might try using the Cairo Library (and its python bingins, of course)
It does implement postscript drawing operators and can render to many 
back-ends.

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