! Cairo Graphics Library

Version 1.6

Author: Roman Miro, Ivan Denisov, Dmitriy Solomennikov

!! Overview

Cairo is a 2D vector graphics library with support for multiple output, like: screen, file, memory, printing devices. This subsystem gives you an OOP wrapper for constructing your own components.

Cairo subsystem consists of interface definitions of native Cairo API plus:

• CairoModels - definitions of basic types, abstract classes
• CairoSurfaces - definitions of classes for different kinds of renderers
• CairoTexts - definitions of classes for text rendering facilities
• CairoUtil - different helper procedures

Cairo subsystem comes with demo programs which you can find in Cairo/Mod/Demos.

!! License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/ormodify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General PublicLicense as published by the Free Software Foundation; eitherversion 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

!! Installation

To use this binding some DLLs are required:

• libcairo-2.dll
• freetype6.dll
• libexpat-1.dll
• libfontconfig-1.dll
• libpixman-1-0.dll
• libpng12-0.dll
• zlib1.dll

You can find them in Windows distribution of Inkscape 32-bit: http://inkscape.org/download/windows