Cairo (graphics) - Notable Usage

Notable Usage

Cairo is popular in the open source community for providing cross-platform support for advanced 2D drawing.

  • GTK+, starting in 2005 with version 2.8, uses cairo to render the majority of its widgets.
  • The Mono Project, including Moonlight, has been using cairo since very early in conception to power the backends of its GDI+ (libgdiplus) and System.Drawing namespaces.
  • The Mozilla project has made use of cairo in recent versions of its Gecko layout engine, used for rendering the graphical output of Mozilla products. Gecko 1.8, the layout engine for Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and SeaMonkey 1.0, used cairo to render SVG and content. Gecko 1.9, the release of Gecko that serves as the basis of Firefox 3, uses cairo as the graphics backend for rendering both web page content and the user interface (or "chrome").
  • The WebKit framework uses cairo for all rendering in the GTK+ and EFL ports. Support has also been added for SVG and content using cairo.
  • The Poppler library uses cairo to render PDF documents. Cairo enables the drawing of antialiased vector graphics and transparent objects.
  • The vector graphics application Inkscape uses the cairo library for its outline mode display, as well as for PDF and PostScript export since release 0.46.
  • MorphOS 2.5 features a shared library implementation of cairo, which was available as stand-alone release for earlier MorphOS versions.
  • AmigaOS 4.1 supports a shared object library of cairo (libcairo.so) in its default installation.
  • FontForge switched to cairo for all rendering in mid-October 2008.
  • R can output plots in PDF, PostScript and SVG formats using cairo if available.
  • Gnuplot 4.4 now uses cairo for rendering PDF and PNG output.
  • Internet Browser for PlayStation 3 uses cairo since system software update 4.10.

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