ImageMagick vs. Cairo on Vector Graphics rasterization

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I am working on a project that needs rasterizing of drawings into image files. I have already got it work using GDI+. Wanting to create a portable solution, I am also looking into other solutions and found two - cairo and imagemagick. I am new to both, but it seems that ImageMagick can do almost all the stuff - drawing lines, arcs, circles, text etc.. plus many bitmap manipulation.

However, Cairo is mentioned as competitor to GDI+ in web sites. ImageMagick is never mentioned for this purpose.

I do not have time to invest on both libraries. I need to decide which one is worthy. I prefer to ImageMagick, as it seems much more powerful.

What's your opinion on the two graphic libs?

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