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Cairo bindings
Rust bindings for Rust and wrappers for Cairo, part of gtk-rs-core.

Cairo 1.14 is the lowest supported version for the underlying library.
Minimum supported Rust version
Currently, the minimum supported Rust version is 1.83.0.
Default-on features
- use_glib - Use with glib
Fileformat features
- png - Reading and writing PNG images
- pdf - Rendering PDF documents
- svg - Rendering SVG documents
- ps - Rendering PostScript documents
Cairo API version features
- v1_16 - Use Cairo 1.16 APIs
Documentation
X Window features
- xcb - X Window System rendering using the XCB library
- xlib - X Window System rendering using XLib
Windows API features
- win32-surface - Microsoft Windows surface support
Using
We recommend using crates from crates.io, as demonstrated here.
If you want to track the bleeding edge, use the git dependency instead:
[dependencies]
cairo-rs = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "cairo-rs" }
Avoid mixing versioned and git crates like this:
# This will not compile
[dependencies]
cairo-rs = "0.13"
cairo-rs = { git = "https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core.git", package = "cairo-rs" }
See Also
License
cairo is available under the MIT License, please refer to it.
Dependencies
~0.1–4MB
~82K SLoC