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The cairo API provides operations similar to the drawing operators of
PostScript and PDF. Operations in cairo including stroking and filling
cubic Bézier splines, transforming and compositing translucent images,
-and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be scaled,
-rotated, or transformed through any other affine transformation.
+and antialiased text rendering. All drawing operations can be
+transformed by any affine transformation (scale, rotation, shear,
+etc.).
Cairo has been designed to let you draw anything you want in a modern
2D graphical user interface. At the same time, the cairo API has been
-designed to be as easy to learn and fun to use as possible. If you're
-not having fun while programming with cairo, then we have failed
+designed to be as fun and easy to learn as possible. If you're not
+having fun while programming with cairo, then we have failed
somewhere---let us know and we'll try to fix it next time around.
Cairo is free software and is available to be redistributed and/or