On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Schmidt <<a href="mailto:crschmidt@crschmidt.net">crschmidt@crschmidt.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote:<br>
> I'm still very much interested in this. Cairo would provide a single API<br>
> to render to an image buffer, on PDF and others. It has good support for<br>
> rendering text with various fonts and there are high-level language APIs.<br>
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> Currently Cairo can be used in Geoinformatica to render geodata,<br>
> legends, etc. on a map. I'm already using that a bit and will use it<br>
> much more in the future.<br>
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</div>I think that for the task you've described, looking into Mapnik might<br>
be a good idea.</blockquote><div><br>Some more is here:<br> <a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/cairodriver.html">http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/manuals/html63_user/cairodriver.html</a><br><br>Markus<br>
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