[ 1] ( stylized as ) is an open- source graphics library that provides a vector graphics - based, deviceindependent. cairo is a 2d graphics library with support for multiple output devices. it provides primitives for two- dimensional drawing across a number of different back ends. pdf: : cairo: : font wrapper that adds some useful methods to cairo fonts currently supported output targets include the x window system ( via both xlib and xcb), quartz, win32, image buffers, postscript, pdf, and svg file pdf cairo output. from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. cairo uses hardware acceleration [ 4] when available. svg" else " rplot% 03d. svg", width = 7, height = 7, pointsize = 12, onefile = false, family = " sans", bg = " white", antialias = c ( " default", " none", " gray", " subpixel" ) ). the pdf surface is used to render cairo graphics to adobe pdf files and is a multi- page vector surface backend. usage svg ( filename = if ( onefile) " rplots. this guarantees that they' ll match color names used in pango: : layout markups. pdf: : cairo simple api for creating pdf files using the cairo library pdf: : cairo: : box rectanglemanipulation library pdf: : cairo: : colors a list of valid color names extracted from x11' s rgb. description graphics devices for svg, pdf and postscript graphics files using the cairo graphics api. cairo ( graphics) 20 languages.