[Baypiggies] Cairo Question

[Andy Toulouse]

I've had good experiences with Cairo. One caveat is that because the C  
documentation is solid, the Python bindings are not as well  
documented. However, this is a minuscule annoyance, the bindings map  
very well.

For streaming out images I believe a common idiom is to write the PNG  
to a cStreamIO object. I am not familiar with the SVG backend of  
Cairo, unfortunately, and if you run into issues I'd say they're most  
likely to be here.

In any case, it's a fun API, and pretty speedy IMO. Have fun and I  
hope to hear about your experiences with it!

--Andy

On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Glen Jarvis wrote:

> My basic Wiki searching has told me that this is done via Cairo and  
> there are Python bindings. Let me amend my question. Does anyone  
> have experience with this? Are there any gotchas?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Glen
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Glen Jarvis wrote:
>
>> Please don't 'x' me off the list for asking a Java question :)
>>
>> I am *not* a Java programmer. I am also *not* a Perl programmer. I  
>> am moving to a new task to review a set of software written in Perl  
>> that accesses Java Batik (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/).  
>> Normally, I'd want to rewrite in Python just because I like Python  
>> so much.
>>
>> However, surprisingly, this code isn't too bad at all -- that says  
>> something if a non-perl programmer can read it :)
>>
>> Also, Batik is an Apache XML Graphics Project -- So, I need to  
>> decide on another infrastructure or to stick with what we have. Has  
>> any other python developers ran into this? Did you stick with what  
>> worked? Did you rewrite? Can PIL do SVG graphics?
>>
>> Also note that we'd like real-time rendering (if possible) via URL  
>> (like Google Graph API).
>>
>> This is an experienced based question - not a technology question.  
>> Sometimes it's better to reuse -- sometimes it's better to rewrite.
>
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