From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2005-10-16T01:23:23+09:00
Subject: [ANN] rcairo 1.0.0

Hi,

I released rcairo 1.0.0.

  http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.0.0.tar.gz

  MD5: e6c6442b24155146ba986dc7774e45e3
  SHA1: 7da5155f0f141dd8c0b8ec3010f0536bc10e6e6a

rcairo is a Ruby bindings for cairo(*).

  Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple
  output devices. Currently supported output targets include
  the X Window System, win32, and image
  buffers. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through
  glitz), Quartz, XCB, PostScript and PDF file output.

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(*) http://cairographics.org/

The following URIs are helpful to learn cairo:
  http://cworth.org/~cworth/papers/cairo_ddc2005/
  http://cworth.org/~cworth/papers/cairo_lca2005/


INSTALL:

  % wget http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.0.0.tar.gz

## if you want to checksum
  % wget http://cairographics.org/releases/rcairo-1.0.0.tar.gz.md5
  % md5sum -c rcairo-1.0.0.tar.gz.md5
##

  % tar xvfz rcairo-1.0.0.tar.gz
  % cd rcairo-1.0.0

  % ruby setup.rb config
  % ruby setup.rb setup
  % sudo ruby setup.rb install
## or
  % sudo ruby setup.rb


SAMPLES:

  % cd samples

  % ruby png.rb # output test.png
  % display test.png

  % ruby ps.rb # output test.ps
  % evince test.ps
  % ruby ps2.rb # output test2.ps which is same as test.ps
  % evince test2.ps

  % ruby pdf.rb # output test.pdf
  % evince test.pdf
  % ruby pdf2.rb # output test2.pdf which is same as test.pdf
  % evince test2.pdf

Other samples are included in Ruby/GTK samples:
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/gtk/sample/gtk-demo/

cairo-*.rb are using rcairo.


DOCUMENTATION:

Not yet... Please see the above sample scripts.

I'm using cairo's API reference:
  http://cairographics.org/manual/ix01.html


DESCRIPTION:

  * Implementing ALL cairo API.
  * Adjusting the style for language binding for cairo(*).
  * Supporting PS/PDF surface

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(*) http://cairographics.org/manual/language-bindings.html


THANKS:

  * Masao Mutoh: Fixed installation on Win32 and reported
    some bugs.


Regards,
--
kou