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DaiPlusPlus
on Nov 13, 2017
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Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ (2002)
Simplicity of implementation. GDI's drawing primitives exist in practically all other drawing APIs so translating it to Cairo, OpenGL, or Direct2D should be trivial.
chris_wot
on Nov 13, 2017
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Hardly. You are coupling the Windows GDI to an image format. It’s horrible to parse, and reliant on Windows quirks. It’s really not that great.
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