[cairo] wrapping a complete surface at a given width

[jan aerts (RI)]

Hi all,

I have been happily coding cairo (using the ruby bindings) to develop a
genetics visualization toolkit. At the moment I'm trying to add some new
functionality for which I need your help...

Many of the pictures generated by my toolkit are _very_ wide but have a
very limited height. Is there a way to basically wrap a whole picture at
e.g. 800 pixels? So suppose my ImageSurface is 2000 pixels wide and 200
pixels high, is there a transformation that can cut it in pieces of 800,
800 and 400 pixels wide and put those pieces underneath each other? So
the end result would be a picture of 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels
high...

Any help very much appreciated.

jan.

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Dr Jan Aerts
Bioinformatics Group
Roslin Institute
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