https://github.com/pharo-graphics/alexandrie

FFI bindings and a 2D canvas for Pharo based on Cairo, Freetype and Harfbuzz
https://github.com/pharo-graphics/alexandrie

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FFI bindings and a 2D canvas for Pharo based on Cairo, Freetype and Harfbuzz

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pharo-graphics/alexandrie
• Owner: pharo-graphics
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-04-19T01:38:34.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: dev
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-16T19:52:07.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T17:37:50.593Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, pharo, smalltalk
• Language: Smalltalk
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.44 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Alexandrie

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/pharo-graphics/Alexandrie.svg)](./LICENSE)

[![Tests](https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Alexandrie/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Alexandrie/actions/workflows/test.yml)

[![Test ffi-minimal baseline group](https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Alexandrie/actions/workflows/test.ffi-minimal.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Alexandrie/actions/workflows/test.ffi-minimal.yml)

This repository includes:

- [Pharo](https://pharo.org/) FFI bindings to [Cairo](https://www.cairographics.org), [FreeType](https://freetype.org/) and [Harfbuzz](https://harfbuzz.github.io/).

- A font manager that can scan filesystem for fonts files, and provide a simple selection API (extracted from Pharo's FT2 bindings)

- A 2D canvas (unstable) for drawing figures and text providing an abstraction layer on top of Cairo. It was born as an alternative for rendering [Bloc](https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Bloc) elements, but it is independent from Bloc.

For more details, please refer to our documentation:

* [User Guide](doc/1-UserGuide.md)

* [FFI Code Convention](doc/2-CodeConvention.md)

* [Regression Testing](doc/3-Testing.md)

* [External C dependencies](doc/4-Dependencies.md)

* [Why writing new Cairo bindings?](doc/5-WhyNewBindings.md)

These pages can be browsed via  Pharo IDE -> World Menu -> Help -> Documentation Browser -> Alexandrie/doc (after loading the project).

## Install

The project can be loaded as usual via Metacello, using the `BaselineOfAlexandrie` specification. To copy/paste a loading script, see the [wiki page](../../wiki/Install).

## Branches & Contributions

We describe our contribution workflow & branch name convention in [this wiki page](../../wiki/Branches-and-versions).

## License

This code is licensed under the [MIT license](./LICENSE).