Cairo

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

• Cairo tutorial in Python
• Cairo documentation for Python
• Main programming documentation