[cairo] Printing of vector graphics?

[Andrew Cowie]

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 09:06 +0100, Satz Klauer wrote:

> But: how can I send these data to a printer instead of drawing them
> onto some canvas?

One way to do it is to draw to a PDF surface, then open the .pdf in
Evince and hit Ctrl+P.
http://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-PDF-Surfaces.html

Or you can get into the GtkPrintOperation code if you're making a user
interface on Linux. You get a Cairo context to draw on there, the same
as other places in GTK.
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.6/gtk3-High-level-Printing-API.html#GtkPrintOperation-draw-page

AfC
Canberra