# Rcairo 1.4.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 6, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcairo-1-4-0/87863 "2007-03-06T14:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Kouhei\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kouhei_S)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rcairo-1-4-0/87863/1 "2007-03-06T14:23:58Z")
Hi, I released rcairo 1.4.0 that supports cairo 1.4.0 release at 3 hours ago: [http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz) [http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz.md5](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz.md5) efb370e819e5ce354d42a01f58e39688 rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz [http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz.sha1](http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz.sha1) 35f39618e492c3efffcbc326e5622c37baedc58c rcairo-1.4.0.tar.gz I changed installer from setup.rb to extconf.rb + make same as Ruby-GNOME2 project. Sorry. # ---- From cairo’s README What is cairo Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, win32, and image buffers, as well as PDF, PostScript, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, XCB, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB. ## … # ---- From cairo’s NEWS Release 1.4.0 (2007-03-06 Carl W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)) … ## Performance improvements Within the cairo project, the last 6 months or so has seen an intense effort focusing on the performance of cairo itself. That effort has paid off considerably, as can be seen in the following highlights of some of the performance differences from cairo 1.2.6 to cairo 1.4.0. - Dramatic improvement when drawing objects that are mostly off-screen with the image backend (with the xlib backend this case is still slow due to an X server bug): - Dramatic improvement when copying a small fraction of an image surface to an xlib surface: - Dramatic improvement to tessellation speed for complex objects: - Dramatic improvement to the speed of stroking rectilinear shapes, (such as the outline of a rectangle or “box”): - Dramatic improvements to text rendering speeds: … ## Greatly improved PDF output We are very happy to be able to announce that cairo-generated PDF output will now have text that can be selected, cut-and-pasted, and searched with most capable PDF viewer applications. This is something that was not ever possible with cairo 1.2. Also, the PDF output now has much more compact encoding of text than before. Cairo is now much more careful to not embed multiple copies of the same font at different sizes. It also compresses text and font streams within the PDF output. ## … Thanks,