The pdf surface is used to render cairo graphics to adobe pdf files and is a multipage. Cairo is a 2d graphics library with support for multiple output devices. You can build the remaining ancillary cairo parts with the following steps, or go enjoy your library now. Portable document format pdf is a file format used to present and exchange documents reliably, independent of software, hardware, or operating system. All of his original snippet code is considered to be part of the public domain. Ifd in output designer and recompile the template for the appropriate presentment target. Graphics devices for svg, pdf and postscript graphics files using the cairo graphics api. The original snippets were created by oyvind kolas for a paper submitted to guadec 2004. Because this file format doesnt rely on the software nor hardware, it is often use to present product graphics, ebooks, flyers, job applications, scanned documents, brochures. Pdf files are more suitable, to present content to the user than binarytext files. Gavin bell of silicon graphics has adapted the inventor file format for vrml, with design input from the mailing list. Im trying to use the cairo graphics library on linux in c to make a pretty lightweight x11 gui.
After trying very hard to follow the woefully incomplete guide that cairo gives for x11, this is th. Render pdf and postscript files with cairo cairo graphics. Currently supported output targets include the x window system via both xlib and xcb, quartz, win32, image buffers, postscript, pdf, and svg file output. Sgi has publicly stated that the file format is available for use in the open market, and have contributed a file format parser into the public domain to bootstrap vrml viewer development.
Cairographicsbased svg, pdf and postscript graphics. This can be seen in imprecise centering of characters, for example the. The pdf surface is used to render cairo graphics to adobe pdf files and is a multipage vector surface backend. Deploying the sample to deploy this sample in your environment. Ps or eps files can also be rendered to a cairo context by first converting to pdf using ghostscript. Cairo initializes a new graphics device that uses the cairo graphics library for. Title r graphics device using cairo graphics library for creating. The snippets are meant to be short, and easy to understand. For this purpose i am using cairo graphics library. Browse to cairo s src folder cairo \src, and run make f makefile.
Cairo samples this page contains samples of cairo s rendered output and the code snippets used to create them. More over pdf files provides, more accessibility features for disabled people. Generate cairo based output when using the gnuplot graphics toolkit. Cairo is a library for creating 2d vector graphics. In this section of the cairo graphics tutorial, we will use cairo to create a png image, pdf file, svg file and we will draw on a. A complete example showing the capabilities of text printing using the. Cairo stylized as cairo is an open source programming library that provides a vector. Cairographicsbased svg, pdf and postscript graphics devices description. You now have your library in cairo \src\debug or release.