Subject: bug#36315: 27.0.50; SVG transparency handling is inaccurate

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:55:42 +0300

> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:44:28 +0100
> From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <[email-masked]>,
> 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > Maybe it's just me, but I'm uneasy to bypass librsvg and call Cairo
> > directly for manipulating SVG images.  Why doesn't librsvg provide a
> > way to do this via its own APIs?
> > 
> > Does anyone else think it's unusual to make such direct calls to what
> > is essentially a lower-level library?
> 
> Librsvg doesn’t provide any way to modify the images.

Yes, but neither do any of the other image libraries, right?

The issue at hand, I believe, had to do with colors that weren't
right.  Image transformations are a separate issue, and we already
know how to do that for SVG and for other image types.