Editing Cairo (graphics) (section)

{{Short description|Vector graphics-based software library}}
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Cairo
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| logo                   = Cairo banner closeup.svg
| logo size              = 150px
| logo caption           = [[File:Cairo graphics.svg|125px]]
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| author                 = [[Keith Packard]], Carl Worth<ref>{{cite web |url= http://cworth.org/ |title=Carl's boring web pages  |work=cworth.org |year=2013 |access-date=July 11, 2014}}</ref>
| developer              = Carl Worth, [[Behdad Esfahbod]]
| released               = Before {{Start date and age|2003}}<ref name=xrols2003>{{cite web | title=Xr: Cross-device Rendering for Vector Graphics | url=http://cworth.org/~cworth/papers/xr_ols2003/html/ | access-date=June 8, 2009}}</ref>
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| latest release version = {{Latest stable software release/cairo}}
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| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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| status                 =
| genre                  = [[Graphics library]]
| license                = [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] version 2.1 (only) or [[Mozilla Public License]] 1.1
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| website                = {{URL|https://www.cairographics.org}}
| repo                   = {{URL|https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo}}
}}

'''Cairo''' (stylized as '''cairo''') is an [[Open-source software|open-source]] [[graphics library]] that provides a [[vector graphics]]-based, device-independent [[Application programming interface|API]] for [[software developer]]s. It provides primitives for [[Plane (mathematics)|two-dimensional]] drawing across a number of different [[front and back ends|backends]]. Cairo uses [[hardware acceleration]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://cairographics.org/ | title = Cairo homepage | access-date = October 30, 2010}}</ref> when available.