[cairo] push_group vector question

[Donn]

Hi, tis I. 
 I feel more than a little sheepish having so many replies and *still* not 
getting some of the basics. I will press on.

I savvy that a Pattern is a source of data for Cairo. I also see that vector 
data remains vector and raster remains raster. 
 Now, when one draws stuff in Cairo, let's say a tree, within a push/pop 
group -- what becomes of that data? 
 My experience has been that it becomes a raster of what was drawn (clipped to 
the edges of the window). But it started life as what I would think of as 
a "vector" -- lines between points -- so wouldn't it make sense to expect a 
vector back again?
 What if one wanted to paint it at a larger scale or output it to an SVG?

Perhaps there's a setting somewhere I have not seen.

Just wondering aloud for clarity.

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