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diff --git a/graphics/cairo/DESCR b/graphics/cairo/DESCR index 3b5cdef47fa..913ba342f0b 100644 --- a/graphics/cairo/DESCR +++ b/graphics/cairo/DESCR @@ -1,17 +1,19 @@ -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 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. -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). +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). -The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of -PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling cubic -Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images, and -antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be transformed by any -affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.) +The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators +of PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and +filling cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing +translucent images, and antialiased 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 implemented as a library written in the C programming +language, but bindings are available for several different programming +languages. |