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<maintainer type="project">
<email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
<name>Gentoo Haskell</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription>
This module provides efficient functions for rendering vector
graphics to a number of formats, including EPS, PostScript, and
PDF. It provides an abstraction for multi-page documents, as well
as a set of graphics primitives for page descriptions.
The graphics model is similar to that of the PostScript and PDF
languages, but we only implement a subset of their functionality.
Care has been taken that graphics rendering is done efficiently and
as lazily as possible; documents are rendered \"on the fly\",
without the need to store the whole document in memory.
The provided document description model consists of two separate
layers of abstraction:
* /drawing/ is concerned with placing marks on a fixed surface, and
takes place in the 'Draw' monad;
* /document structure/ is concerned with a sequence of pages, their
bounding boxes, and other meta-data. It takes place in the
'Document' monad.
In principle, the functionality provided by EasyRender is similar to
a subset of Cairo; however, EasyRender is lightweight and at least
an order of magnitude faster.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>