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From: "deadlyhead" <s.brutzman@gmail.com>
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> Damien Carbonne <damien.carbonne@free.fr> writes:
>
> > I have a working (at least for all tests I have done with it !) Cairo
> > Ada 95 binding .
>
> What's Cairo?

Cairo is a slick 2D graphics library (not a gui toolkit).  Information
can be had at http://www.cairographics.org.

Interesting things to note are that it is cross-platform, can output to
several different formats including SVG and PDF, and is well on its way
to being hardware accelerated through OpenGL.

Downside?  It's written in C.  ;)

>
> Provinding a .tar.gz would be good; it's far easier to browse code on
> my computer than on the web. Especially if it compiles.
> 
> -- 
> -- Stephe