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A CairoFilter is used to indicate what filtering should be applied when reading pixel values from patterns. See CairoPattern::setSource() or cairo_pattern_set_source() for indicating the desired filter to be used with a particular pattern.
CairoFilter::FAST
      A high-performance filter, with quality similar to CairoFilter::NEAREST
CairoFilter::GOOD
     A reasonable-performance filter, with quality similar to CairoFilter::BILINEAR
CairoFilter::BEST
     The highest-quality available, performance may not be suitable for interactive use.
CairoFilter::NEAREST
     Nearest-neighbor filtering
CairoFilter::BILINEAR
     Linear interpolation in two dimensions
CairoFilter::GAUSSIAN
     This filter value is currently unimplemented, and should not be used in current code.