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Scrumptious recipes to spice up your applications

• General Drawing

  • Rounded rectangles
  • Ellipses With Uniform Stroke Width
  • A description of compositing operators in Cairo
  • Clipping Outside A Region

• Matrix Transformations

  • Basic matrix transformation reminder
  • Keeping Your Matrix Transformations Straight
  • Transforming About An Arbitrary Point

• Fonts and Text

  • Loading fonts using FreeType for cairo use in Python
  • How to:Render text with Pango using Python

• Graphics Formats

  • Load jpg/png/gif/bmp/etc into CairoContext with help from gdk-pixbuf in Pycairo/Pygtk
  • Python: Converting PIL images to Cairo surfaces and back
  • Rendering SVG using librsvg in Python
  • How to:Open a simple SVG file without Pyrsvg
  • How to:Using PyCairo and Pyrsvg to handle SVG graphics
  • How to:Render PDF and PostScript files with cairo

• Interactive Graphics

  • How to:Using path data to create a Hit Area
  • How to:Do timeout animation (Also shows rotation around a point)

• Image Processing

  • How to:Perform a Gaussian blur on an image surface
  • How to:Apply an emboss filter to an image surface

• Language Bindings

  • Using Perl Cairo module
  • Converting cairo code from C to Python or Haskell and back
  • How to:A quick framework for testing cairo from Python (And demos masking)

• Platform-specific

  • Using Win32 Quickstart
  • .NET GDI rendering
  • How to:Create and use an XcbSurface