No..I am not using cairo_save/cairo_restore. But I am using cairo_fill_perserve. Also I tried with cairo_save and restore...it did not help. regards. Abhidhnya <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:49 PM, abhidhnya sonawane <<a href="mailto:abhidhnya.sonawane@gmail.com">abhidhnya.sonawane@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I am doing the following: I am drawing a rectangle and scaling it big and small. That happens properly. the problem is  after the scaling part it over ,the drawn  rectangle goes off. I am doing normal drawing in expose event. I am using cairo_fill as I  later wish to use cairo_pattern_t, Please help. </blockquote></div>