Cairo: A Vector Graphics Library

for Cairo 1.2.0

I. Tutorial

II. Reference

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

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

cairo_surface_t — Base class for surfaces
Image Surfaces — Rendering to memory buffers
PDF Surfaces — Rendering PDF documents
PNG Support — Reading and writing PNG images
PostScript Surfaces — Rendering PostScript documents
Win32 Surfaces — Microsoft Windows surface support
SVG Surfaces — Rendering SVG documents
XLib Surfaces — X Window System rendering using XLib

cairo_matrix_t — Generic matrix operations
Error handling — Decoding cairo's status
Version Information — Compile-time and run-time version checks.
Types — Generic data types used in the cairo API

A. Creating a language binding for cairo

General considerations
Memory Management
Multiple return values
Overloading and optional arguments
Streams and File I/O
Error handling
Patterns
Surfaces
Fonts
cairo_path_t