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Cairo is a free software 2D graphics library. It is vector-based, and can be used to produce SVG and PDF format images, for instance. It is cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows). Cairo is used as the rendering engine in the latest version of the [[Firefox]] browser. | Cairo is a free software 2D graphics library. It is vector-based, and can be used to produce SVG and PDF format images, for instance. It is cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows). Cairo is used as the rendering engine in the latest version of the [[Firefox]] browser (and as such cairo-produced SVG graphics are implicitly well suited for display in Firefox). | ||
[http://cairographics.org/ Main Cairo website] | [http://cairographics.org/ Main Cairo website] | ||
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* [http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/CairoTutorial Cairo tutorial in Python] | * [http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/CairoTutorial Cairo tutorial in Python] | ||
* [http://cairographics.org/documentation/pycairo/ Cairo documentation for Python] | |||
* [http://cairographics.org/manual/ Main programming documentation] | * [http://cairographics.org/manual/ Main programming documentation] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:29, 19 June 2009
Cairo is a free software 2D graphics library. It is vector-based, and can be used to produce SVG and PDF format images, for instance. It is cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows). Cairo is used as the rendering engine in the latest version of the Firefox browser (and as such cairo-produced SVG graphics are implicitly well suited for display in Firefox).
Python
Installing on Debian
sudo apt-get install python-cairo