Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Jul 2006 18:59 UTC, submitted by trevor
X11, Window Managers "We are very pleased to announce this release, the first major update to cairo since the original 1.0 release 10 months ago. Compared to cairo 1.0, the 1.2 release doubles the number of supported backends, adding PDF, PostScript & SVG backends to the previous xlib/win32, and image backends."
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and cairo is?
by netean on Sat 1st Jul 2006 23:09 UTC
netean
Member since:
2006-01-08

their website tells me nothing about what it is, what it does, or why I might want it... clearly if I need to ask what it is I'm not l33t enough to need it!

RE: and cairo is?
by Amaranth on Sat 1st Jul 2006 23:32 in reply to "and cairo is?"
Amaranth Member since:
2005-06-29

"Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, win32, and image buffers. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, XCB, PostScript and PDF file output."

Right on the main page.

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RE: and cairo is?
by someone on Sun 2nd Jul 2006 03:26 in reply to "and cairo is?"
someone Member since:
2006-01-12

If you use GTK 2.8+ or Gnome 2.10+ then you are already using Cairo and enjoying its benefits!

Cairo is a Vector drawing library. It has nothing to do with the end user.

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