[cairo-announce] ANN: pycairo snapshot release 1.1.6 now available

[Steven Chaplin]

Pycairo is a set of Python bindings for the multi-platform 2D graphics
library cairo.
 http://cairographics.org
 http://cairographics.org/pycairo

A new pycairo snapshot release 1.1.6 is now available from:

        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/pycairo-1.1.6.tar.gz
        http://cairographics.org/snapshots/pycairo-1.1.6.tar.gz.md5

        39b3d60774c90f2d431f41faf28ec27f  pycairo-1.1.6.tar.gz


Overview of changes from pycairo 1.0.2 to pycairo 1.1.6
=======================================================
General changes:
Pycairo has been updated to work with cairo 1.1.6.
Note that cairo 1.1.6 is a development version and not a fully stable
release, the stable release 1.2.0 is due soon.

New objects:
    SVGSurface

New methods:
    Context.get_group_target
    Context.new_sub_path
    Context.pop_group
    Context.pop_group_to_source
    Context.push_group
    Context.push_group_with_content
    FontOptions.get_antialias
    FontOptions.get_hint_metrics
    FontOptions.get_hint_style
    FontOptions.get_subpixel_order
    FontOptions.set_antialias
    FontOptions.set_hint_metrics
    FontOptions.set_hint_style
    FontOptions.set_subpixel_order
    PDFSurface.set_size
    PSSurface.dsc_begin_page_setup
    PSSurface.dsc_begin_setup
    PSSurface.dsc_comment
    PSSurface.set_size
    ScaledFont.get_font_face
    ScaledFont.text_extents
    Surface.get_device_offset
    XlibSurface.get_depth

Updated methods:
    PDFSurface()/PSSurface() - can now write to file-like objects (like
    StringIO).

    surface.write_to_png() and ImageSurface.create_from_png() can now
    write to file-like objects (like StringIO).

    select_font_face, show_text, text_extents and text_path now accept
    unicode objects.

Other changes:
    misc bug fixes.

New examples:
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets_svg.py
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/ellipse.py
    examples/cairo_snippets/snippets/group.py
    examples/svg/svgconvert.py


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