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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>cairographics.org</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="local.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="header"> <div id="logo"> <a href="/"><img alt="cairo" src="/cairo-banner.png" /></a> </div> </div> <div id="navcontainer"> <ul id="navlist"> <li><a href="/news/">News</a></li> <li><a href="/download/">Download</a></li> <li><a href="/documentation/">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/examples/">Examples</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="content"> <p>Latest <a href="./news/">news</a>: <span class="date">2025-03-08</span>: <a href="./news/cairo-1.18.4/">cairo-1.18.4</a> <span class="date">2024-09-01</span>: <a href="./news/cairo-1.18.2/">cairo-1.18.2</a> <span class="date">2023-09-23</span>: <a href="./news/cairo-1.18.0/">cairo-1.18.0</a> </p> <hr /> <p>Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported <a href="./backends/">output targets</a> include the X Window System (via both <a href="./Xlib/">Xlib</a> and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output.</p> <p>Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension).</p> <p>The <a href="/manual/">cairo API</a> provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling cubic B茅zier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.)</p> <p>Cairo is implemented as a library written in the C programming language, but <a href="./bindings/">bindings</a> are available for several different programming languages.</p> <p>Cairo is <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html">free software</a> and is available to be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 or the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1 at your option.</p> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="pageinfo"> <div class="pagedate"> Last edited <span class="date">Sat Sep 01 2024</span> </div> </div> <!-- from cairographics.org --> </div> </body> </html>