ImageMagick vs. Cairo on Vector Graphics rasterization
- by Sherwood Hu
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?