From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T20:41:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Drawing in ruby (antigrain bindings)

Give RMagick a try, it's not so leaky as you've heard.
It can do vector and raster art. Quite good stuff!
Tim Hunter maintains it well.

On Nov 5, 2007, at 4:46 AM, Axel Etzold wrote:

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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 08:48:48 +0900
>> Von: Emmanuel Oga <oga_emmanuel_oga@yahoo.com.ar>
>> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>> Betreff: Drawing in ruby (antigrain bindings)
>
>> Hi! I'm needing a good drawing solution for ruby. All the present
>> options are ugly IMHO, because require a very big framework to work
>> (cairo needs GTK bindings for ruby for working out of the box in
>> windows, don't know how it is on linux). ImageMagick seems to be  
>> hated
>> by rubyists everywhere, due to some memory leaks or something....
>>
>> I found a very criptic reference to a ruby bindings for antigrain in
>> this 2005 "nostalgia" post :) :
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/ 
>> 35c2f61d29e94550/28b32a50948920ba
>>
>> Does anybody know if there any news about antigrain bindings for  
>> ruby?
>>
>> Thanks!ª
>> -- 
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Dear Emanuel,
>
> as antigrain seems to be written in C++, you may be able to use it
> in conjunction with Ruby via SWIG:
>
> http://www.swig.org/
>
> There are some examples on how to do that here:
> http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/swig-examples/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
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