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diagrams-cairo is a rendering backend for diagrams, a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.

diagrams-cairo is implemented using the cairo rendering engine and is a fully-featured, officially supported backend for diagrams.

Installation

cabal update && cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools diagrams-cairo

Basic usage

A simple example that uses diagrams-cairo to draw a blue circle:

{-# LANGUAGE NoMonomorphismRestriction #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts          #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies              #-}

import Diagrams.Prelude
import Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.CmdLine

d :: Diagram B
d = circle 1 # fc blue

main = mainWith (pad 1.1 d)

Save this to file named Circle.hs and compile it:

ghc --make Circle.hs

This will generate an executable which, when run, outputs a blue circle to some file. Run the executable with the --help option to find out more about how to call it.

$ ./Circle --help
./Circle

Usage: ./Circle [-w|--width WIDTH] [-h|--height HEIGHT] [-o|--output OUTPUT]
                [--loop] [-s|--src ARG] [-i|--interval INTERVAL]
  Command-line diagram generation.

Available options:
  -?,--help                Show this help text
  -w,--width WIDTH         Desired WIDTH of the output image
  -h,--height HEIGHT       Desired HEIGHT of the output image
  -o,--output OUTPUT       OUTPUT file
  -l,--loop                Run in a self-recompiling loop
  -s,--src ARG             Source file to watch
  -i,--interval INTERVAL   When running in a loop, check for changes every INTERVAL seconds.
ommand-line diagram generation.

The output type will be automatically determined from the file extension. Currently PNG, PDF, PS, and SVG are supported.

$ ./Circle -o circle.png -w 400

The command above generates a PNG file with a width of 400px.

Advanced usage

Instead of just creating a standalone executable, the cairo backend can also be called from within a larger program. For more information, see the Diagram.Backend.Cairo module.

Changes

v1.4.2.1 (2023-07-10)

  • Allow base-4.18, mtl-2.3, optparse-applicative-0.18, unix-2.8
  • Test with GHC 9.4 and 9.6

v1.4.2 (2022-01-26)

  • Test with GHC 9.0 (requires --allow-newer)

  • Allow base-4.15, lens-5.1, bytestring-0.11, transformers-0.6, hashable-1.4

  • Add Eq Options instance required for Hashable

  • r1 (6 Feb 2022): allow optparse-applicative-0.17

  • r2 (19 Aug 2022): allow vector-0.13

  • r3 (4 Jan 2023): allow lens-5.2, test with GHC 9.2, drop official support for GHC < 8.8

v1.4.1.1 (2019-01-11)

  • Drop GHC 7.10 and 8.0 support

  • Test with GHC 8.6 and 8.8

  • r1: allow lens-4.19 and linear-1.21

  • r2: allow base-4.14, diagrams-core-1.5, lens-5.0, optparse-applicative-0.16

v1.4.1 (2018-05-17)

  • Allow base-4.11 and lens-4.16
  • Add Semigroup instance for Render Cairo V2 Double
  • Drop GHC 7.8 support

v1.4 (2016-10-26)

  • No significant changes, just bumping version for diagrams 1.4 release

  • Allow vector-0.12 (Hackage revision 1)

  • Allow base-4.10 and optparse-applicative-0.14 (Hackage rev 2)

v1.3.1.2 (2016-08-22)

  • Require optparse-applicative-0.13 and fix compilation error

v1.3.1.1 (2016-08-16)

  • Allow optparse-applicative-0.13

v1.3.1 (2016-06-16)

  • Bump upper bounds to allow:

    • base-4.9
    • data-default-class-0.1
    • transformers-0.5.x
  • New module Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Text with better text support (based on pango)

v1.3.0.6 (2016-05-01)

  • allow lens-4.14
  • New module Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Text (should have been minor version bump; if you want to depend on this module please use diagrams-cairo-1.3.1 or later).

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v1.3.0.5 (2015-09-29)

  • Allow optparse-applicative-0.12

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v1.3.0.4 (2015-09-17)

  • Allow lens-4.13

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v1.3.0.3 (2015-07-19)

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v1.3.0.2 (2015-05-26)

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v1.3.0.1(2015-04-25)

Fixed bug:

  • Reflection should be included in transformation returned by adjustDia #63

v1.3(2015-04-19)

  • allow lens-4.9
  • update for diagrams-1.3

v1.2.0.7 (2015-04-04)

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Fixed bugs:

  • loop when rendering text #59

Merged pull requests:

[v1.2.0.6] () (2015-01-12)

  • allow lens-4.7

v1.2.0.5 (2014-12-25)

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v1.2.0.4 (2014-11-17)

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Closed issues:

  • expose gifRender #55

Merged pull requests:

v1.2.0.3 (2014-10-08)

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Fixed bugs:

  • –loop disables generating multiple files #50

Merged pull requests:

v1.2.0.2-1 (2014-09-08)

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v1.2.0.2 (2014-09-07)

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v1.2.0.1 (2014-08-22)

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Closed issues:

  • Problems with yellow color in gif animation #51

v1.2 (2014-06-02)

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New features

  • Much improved text support using the pango library instead of cairo’s “toy” text API.

  • Support for linear and radial gradients on strokes and fills.

Fixed bugs:

  • textLineBoundedIO sometimes produces incorrect envelopes #19

Closed issues:

  • Mac OS X/XQuartz: Can’t render single letter #43

Merged pull requests:

v1.1.0.1 (2014-03-19)

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v1.1 (2014-03-09)

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New features

  • It is now possible to directly output animated GIFs, using the gifMain function

Closed issues:

  • Color conversions have huge impact on performance #44

Merged pull requests:

  • Fix documentation typo (subtable -> suitable) #45 (robx)

v1.0.1.2 (2014-02-06)

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Closed issues:

  • Build failure for GHC 7.4 #42

v1.0.1.1 (2014-01-30)

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v1.0.1 (2014-01-26)

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v1.0 (2013-11-25)

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New Features

  • Re-implement via new backend RTree interface.

  • Use new command-line interface from diagrams-lib.

  • Export B as an alias for Cairo token.

Fixed bugs:

  • opacity does not affect text #15

Merged pull requests:

v0.7 (2013-08-09)

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New features

  • New renderCairo function for more convenient use of the cairo backend.

  • Lots of Haddock documentation improvements.

Fixed bugs:

  • Lines should not be filled #32

Merged pull requests:

v0.6 (2012-12-12)

New features

  • New --list option for multiMain to list all available diagrams

  • Major documentation improvements

  • New modules:

    • Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Ptr, for rendering directly to buffers in memory

    • Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.List, for rendering to a list of lists of pixels.

API changes

  • Removal of StyleParam from Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Text, change functions in that module to accept Style R2. Usage can be fixed by applying these style functions to mempty.

  • GTK rendering has been split out into a new package, diagrams-gtk.

  • The Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Gtk module is now Diagrams.Backend.Gtk in the diagrams-gtk package.

  • The CairoOptions record has a new boolean cairoBypassAdjust option; when set, the backend should bypass calling adjustDia2D.

  • The GTK output type is gone.

  • There is a new RenderOnly output type, for when you don’t care about the IO action but only want the cairo Render action.

Fixed bugs:

  • old-time and 7.6 #21

  • Use of deprecated ‘try’ function in Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Internal #12

  • Better error message when image file does not exist #11

  • Path doesn’t get resized correctly when no transformations are applied to it #6

  • Make Cairo backend smarter about missing attributes #4

  • Attribute transformations are not handled correctly when rendering #3

Closed issues:

  • vector-space-0.8.5 breaks compilation #27

  • ‘cairoBypassAdjust’ undocumented #23

  • Improve diagrams-cairo documentation #10

Merged pull requests:

  • Additional rendering functions, for Ptr Word8 and [[Colour a]] #25 (haasn)

  • old-time to time #22 (fryguybob)

  • split out gtk rendering into a separate package #20 (byorgey)

  • use requiredScaleT in place of deprecated adjustSize #17 (byorgey)

  • call setDefault2DAttributes even when bypassing size adjustments #16 (byorgey)

v0.5.0.2 (13 May 2012)

  • Allow building under mtl 2.1.*

v0.5.0.1 (9 March 2012)

  • Remove statement in package description that a development version of gtk2hs must be used with GHC 7.4; this is no longer true as of the 0.12.3 release of gtk2hs.

v0.5 (March 2012)

New features

  • New Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Text module by Michael Sloan, with functions for creating appropriately sized text objects by querying cairo for the size, and related supporting functions.

  • Basic support for animation with animMain function, by generating frames sampled at regular intervals.

  • Proper vertical alignment of default text based on font parameters (Michael Sloan).

  • Requesting just a width or height now causes the other to be computed appropriately.

API changes

  • Move Diagrams.Backend.Cairo to Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Internal and export everything. Diagrams.Backend.Cairo now just re-exports selected functions from Internal. This allows anyone who wants access to the helper/utility functions to import Internal.

Dependency/version changes

  • relax cmdargs upper bound

  • GHC 7.4.1 compatibility: update base, filepath, and old-time upper bounds

Bug fixes

  • #54: Generate warning for missing image files (Ian Ross).

v0.4 (22 October 2011)

  • New features:

    • Support for drawing directly to Gtk widgets

      • Support for path fill rule attribute
  • New/improved examples

  • Improved documentation

  • Bug fixes:

    • Warning for unsupported image types (#41)

v0.3 (18 June 2011)

  • Some new/improved examples

  • New features:

    • simple text support

    • simple support for external PNG images

v0.2 (3 June 2011)

  • add Typeable and other instances for Cairo type

  • generalize Result type to (IO (), Render ()), so programs that don’t want to generate a file but just want a Render operation (e.g. to use to paint a gtk window) can use the second component.

  • add support for opacity attribute and path clipping

v0.1.2 (18 May 2011)

  • link to new website

v0.1.1 (18 May 2011)

  • fix tic-tac-toe example

v0.1 (17 May 2011)

  • initial preview release

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