Post by Martin McBride on Feb 8, 2020 12:03:51 GMT
The book is now complete and available for purchase from Leanpub.
Here is the table of contents:
Foreword
Who is this book for?
About the author
Keep in touch
1 Introduction to vector graphics
1.1 Pixel images
1.2 Size and resolution
1.3 Resizing pixel images
1.4 Drawing on pixel images
1.5 Vector graphics
1.6 Rendering
1.7 Typical uses
1.8 Benefits
1.9 Disadvantages
1.10 Common vector formats
2 About Pycairo
2.1 Cairo
2.2 Capabilities
2.3 Version
2.4 Installing Pycairo
2.5 Checking Pycairo version
3 Basic drawing operations
3.1 Creating an image with Pycairo
3.2 Coordinate system
3.3 Rectangles
3.4 Fill and stroke
3.5 Lines
3.6 Polygons
3.7 Open and closed shapes
3.8 Arcs
3.9 Circles
3.10 Bezier curves
3.11 Line styles
4 Paths and complex shapes
4.1 Paths
4.2 Sub-paths
4.3 Lines
4.4 Polygons
4.5 Arcs
4.6 Bezier curves
4.7 Function curves
4.8 Rectangle
5 Computer colour
5.1 RGB colour
5.2 Pycairo RGB colours
5.3 CSS named colours
5.4 Transparency
5.5 Transparency colour calculation
5.6 Transparent images
5.7 Greyscale images
5.8 Pixel colours
6 Transforms and state
6.1 User space and device space
6.2 Translation
6.3 Scaling
6.4 Rotation
6.5 Save and restore
6.6 Rotating about a point
6.7 Placing an ellipse
6.8 Correcting the effects of unequal scaling
6.9 Flipping
6.10 Current transform matrix
7 Working with text
7.1 Text is just shapes
7.2 How Pycairo handles text
7.3 Fonts
7.4 Font size
7.5 Font style
7.6 Text extents
7.7 Text extent examples
7.8 Text alignment
8 Gradients and image fills
8.1 Patterns
8.2 SolidPattern
8.3 Linear gradient
8.4 Linear gradients at different angles
8.5 Adding more stops
8.6 Extend options
8.7 Filling a stroke with a gradient
8.8 Filling text with a gradient
8.9 Radial gradients
8.10 Radial gradient with inner circle
8.11 Radial extend options
8.12 Loading an image into Pycairo
8.13 Using SurfacePattern with an image
8.14 SurfacePattern extend options
8.15 Using SurfacePattern with vectors
9 Clipping, masking and compositing
9.1 Clipping
9.2 Calling clip multiple times
9.3 Resetting the clip region
9.4 Clipping functions
9.5 Masking
9.6 Using an image as a mask
9.7 Compositing
9.8 OVER operator
9.9 Changing the drawing order
9.10 Masking operations
9.11 Artistic colour adjustments
9.12 Specific colour changes
10 Surfaces and output formats
10.1 Output formats
10.2 ImageSurface
10.3 SVGSurface
10.4 PDFSurface
10.5 PSSurface
10.6 RecordingSurface
10.7 ScriptSurface
10.8 TeeSurface
10.9 GUI surfaces
11 Integration with other libraries
11.1 How Pycairo stores image data
11.2 PIL (Pillow) integration
11.3 Numpy integration
Here is the table of contents:
Foreword
Who is this book for?
About the author
Keep in touch
1 Introduction to vector graphics
1.1 Pixel images
1.2 Size and resolution
1.3 Resizing pixel images
1.4 Drawing on pixel images
1.5 Vector graphics
1.6 Rendering
1.7 Typical uses
1.8 Benefits
1.9 Disadvantages
1.10 Common vector formats
2 About Pycairo
2.1 Cairo
2.2 Capabilities
2.3 Version
2.4 Installing Pycairo
2.5 Checking Pycairo version
3 Basic drawing operations
3.1 Creating an image with Pycairo
3.2 Coordinate system
3.3 Rectangles
3.4 Fill and stroke
3.5 Lines
3.6 Polygons
3.7 Open and closed shapes
3.8 Arcs
3.9 Circles
3.10 Bezier curves
3.11 Line styles
4 Paths and complex shapes
4.1 Paths
4.2 Sub-paths
4.3 Lines
4.4 Polygons
4.5 Arcs
4.6 Bezier curves
4.7 Function curves
4.8 Rectangle
5 Computer colour
5.1 RGB colour
5.2 Pycairo RGB colours
5.3 CSS named colours
5.4 Transparency
5.5 Transparency colour calculation
5.6 Transparent images
5.7 Greyscale images
5.8 Pixel colours
6 Transforms and state
6.1 User space and device space
6.2 Translation
6.3 Scaling
6.4 Rotation
6.5 Save and restore
6.6 Rotating about a point
6.7 Placing an ellipse
6.8 Correcting the effects of unequal scaling
6.9 Flipping
6.10 Current transform matrix
7 Working with text
7.1 Text is just shapes
7.2 How Pycairo handles text
7.3 Fonts
7.4 Font size
7.5 Font style
7.6 Text extents
7.7 Text extent examples
7.8 Text alignment
8 Gradients and image fills
8.1 Patterns
8.2 SolidPattern
8.3 Linear gradient
8.4 Linear gradients at different angles
8.5 Adding more stops
8.6 Extend options
8.7 Filling a stroke with a gradient
8.8 Filling text with a gradient
8.9 Radial gradients
8.10 Radial gradient with inner circle
8.11 Radial extend options
8.12 Loading an image into Pycairo
8.13 Using SurfacePattern with an image
8.14 SurfacePattern extend options
8.15 Using SurfacePattern with vectors
9 Clipping, masking and compositing
9.1 Clipping
9.2 Calling clip multiple times
9.3 Resetting the clip region
9.4 Clipping functions
9.5 Masking
9.6 Using an image as a mask
9.7 Compositing
9.8 OVER operator
9.9 Changing the drawing order
9.10 Masking operations
9.11 Artistic colour adjustments
9.12 Specific colour changes
10 Surfaces and output formats
10.1 Output formats
10.2 ImageSurface
10.3 SVGSurface
10.4 PDFSurface
10.5 PSSurface
10.6 RecordingSurface
10.7 ScriptSurface
10.8 TeeSurface
10.9 GUI surfaces
11 Integration with other libraries
11.1 How Pycairo stores image data
11.2 PIL (Pillow) integration
11.3 Numpy integration
