* Provides operations similar to the drawing operators of PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including: * Stroking and filling cubic Bézier splines * Transforming and compositing translucent images * Antialiased text rendering. * All drawing operations can be transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear, etc.)

• Converting Bézier paths into vector paths. • Sorting vector paths into svp's. • Antialiased rendering of svp's. • Computation of stroke paths (with line cap and join options). • Intersection, union, and difference of svp's. • Finding covering uta's for rectangles, vector paths, and svp's. • Union of uta's. • Decomposition of uta's into minimal set of rectangles. • Alpha-compositing. • Affine transformation of paths and images.