Table of Contents

I. Tutorial

II. Reference

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

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

Utilities

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

Index

Index of new symbols in 1.2

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