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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]

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).

Main Cairo website

Python

Installing on Debian

sudo apt-get install python-cairo

Reference