[Ruby-GNOME2 Project Website] update - Cairo::Context (ruby-gnome2-doc-cvs) - Ruby-GNOME2

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 Whatever the target drawing surface is, you use the drawing options on the cairo context, to create shapes with methods like cr.move_to() and cr.line_to(), and then draw shapes with cr.stroke() or cr.fill(), where, indeed, the receiver object((*"cr",*))is cairo context created either with the Gdk::Drawable#create_cairo_context method in Gtk/Cairo environment, or by combining a creation of a drawing surface and binding it to to the cairo context created by the ((<rCairo:_:Context.new(surface)|URL:http://cairo.rubyforge.org/doc/en/cairo-context.html#label-4>)) method available from in the 'stand-alone' Cairo Graphics Library.
 
+:creating cairo context for rcairo:
+    When you are using stand-alone non-GUI cairo library, you should forget, about Ruby's Gdk::Drawable#create_cairo_context, and resort to plain old Cairo ways of creating it via:
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+     surface = Cairo::XyzSurface.new(width, height)
+     cr = Cairo::Context.new(surface)
+
+    by replacing the word "Xyz" above with one of the following { Image, PDF, PS, SVG, ... }.
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 There are only GDK and Pango related APIs.



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