On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Antony Courtney <antony.court...@gmail.com>wrote:
> A 2-D vector graphics library such as Java2D ( or Quartz on OS/X or > GDI+ on Windows ) supports things like computing tight bounding > rectangles for arbitrary shapes, hit testing for determining whether a > point is inside or outside a shape and constructive area geometry for > shape compositing and clipping without dropping down to a raster > representation. These are the kinds of capabilities provided by Cairo, which is very pleasant to use (PDF-style imaging model) and quite portable. There are already Cairo bindings provided by gtk2hs, too.
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