If a pattern is set, cairo_show_text() doesn't render anything. The attached snippet demonstrates the bug - if the cairo_set_pattern is commented out both a rectangle and text will be visible; with the call only the rectangle appears.
Created attachment 1719 [details] snippet demonstrating bug
It appears that this was working back with 0.1.23 and broken as of 0.2.0.
Still fails for me. Converted snippet to a test case and committed to CVS. 2005-08-18 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * test/text-pattern.c: Add a test for bug #2333 (Tim Rowley)
2005-08-18 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * src/cairo-xlib-surface.c (_cairo_xlib_surface_show_glyphs): Fix offset passed in for source patterns. (#2333, Tim Rowley)
Move bugs against "cvs" version to "0.9.3" so we can remove the "cvs" version.
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