|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| libgnomecanvas: libgnomecanvas libgnomecanvas: libgnomecanvas: The GNOME canvas is an engine for structured graphics that libgnomecanvas: offers a rich imaging model, high performance rendering, and a libgnomecanvas: powerful, high-level API. It offers a choice of two rendering libgnomecanvas: back-ends, one based on Xlib for extremely fast display, and libgnomecanvas: another based on Libart, a sophisticated, antialiased, libgnomecanvas: alpha-compositing engine. Applications have a choice between libgnomecanvas: the Xlib imaging model or a superset of the PostScript imaging libgnomecanvas: model, depending on the level of graphic sophistication libgnomecanvas: required.