Part II. Reference

Table of Contents

Drawing

cairo_t — The cairo drawing context

Paths — Creating paths and manipulating path data

Patterns — Gradients and filtered sources

Transformations — Manipulating the current transformation matrix

Text — Rendering text and sets of glyphs

Fonts

cairo_font_face_t — Base class for fonts

Scaled Fonts — Caching metrics for a particular font size

Font Options — How a font should be rendered

FreeType Fonts — Font support for FreeType

Win32 Fonts — Font support for Microsoft Windows

Surfaces

cairo_surface_t — Base class for surfaces

Image Surfaces — Rendering to memory buffers

Glitz Surfaces — OpenGL accelerated rendering using the Glitz library

PDF Surfaces — Rendering PDF documents

PNG Support — Reading and writing PNG images

PostScript Surfaces — Rendering PostScript documents

Win32 Surfaces — Microsoft Windows surface support

XLib Surfaces — X Window System rendering using XLib

Utilities

cairo_matrix_t — Generic matrix operations

Error handling — Decoding cairo's status

Version Information — Compile and run time version checks

Types — Generic data types used in the cairo API