[cairo] cropping an SVG image

[jan aerts (RI)]

All,

Is it in any way possible to crop an SVG surface? I've found code in one
of Carl's answers to do the very thing for PNGs
(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-March/009988.html),
but I just can't get it to work for an SVG or PDF... The trick seemed to
be to create a smaller surface and copy the wanted part from the big
surface onto that one.

(Sorry if this is a straightforward thing; I'm _really_ new to cairo).

Any help appreciated,
jan.

Dr Jan Aerts
Bioinformatics Group
Roslin Institute
Roslin EH25 9PS
Scotland, UK
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