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Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the [X] Window System, Quartz, [Win32], image buffers, [PostScript], [PDF], and [SVG] file output. Experimental backends include [OpenGL] (through glitz), XCB, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB.

Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (e.g., through the X Render Extension).

The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling cubic Bézier [spline]s, transforming and compositing translucent images, and [antialias]ed text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any [affine transformation] (scale, rotation, shear, etc.)

Cairo is implemented as a library written in the [C] programming language, but bindings are available for several different programming languages.

Cairo is free software 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.

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