Re: Native image rotation

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Alan Third <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:21:02PM +0000, Alan Third wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 05:36:46AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > 
>> > It's indeed the clearing that bothered me,
>> 
>> Would it be better if it was done by another XRender composite rather
>> than x_clear_area?
>
> I tried to replace this with XRenderFillRectangle, but realised I need
> to construct an XRenderColor struct, and I’ve no idea how to get the
> colour data held in img->background.
>
> I’ve attached a patch containing the original two, and the ability to
> crop.

Thanks for working on this; I'm curious to know its status.

BTW, I think native image rotation should support arbitrary angles (if
possible), if for no other reason than ImageMagick also supporting them.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil