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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Libart was a library for high-performance 2D graphics. Prior to being replaced with Cairo, it had been used as the <a href="/facts/Anti-aliasing/m3Ew0TQ6">anti-aliased</a> <a href="/facts/Rendering_engine/YYxfnmAq">rendering engine</a> for the Gnome Canvas and for Gill, the Gnome Illustration app. </p><p><a href="/facts/Gdk-pixbuf/urAJHtRe">Gdk-pixbuf</a> used to be a wrapper around libart. </p><p>A component of Libart, containing all functions needed for printing and running <a href="/facts/GNOME/EFMNBmpR">GNOME</a> Canvas, was released under the <a href="/facts/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License/AXwkz9x3">LGPL</a>[<i>when?</i>]. The version maintained under the <a href="/facts/GNU_General_Public_License/S75KhLSX">GPL</a> contained enhancements for unspecified specific applications.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h3>Notable usage</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Eye_of_GNOME/eXPFPvYn">Eye of GNOME</a> used libart</li> <li>The also abandoned <a href="/facts/GNOME/EFMNBmpR">GNOME</a> Canvas widget uses Libart as its rendering API.</li> <li><a href="/facts/GIMP/01Phx7Vp">GIMP</a> used Libart for vector rendering.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dia_(software)/HXNw54v5">Dia</a> could use Libart for <a href="/facts/Spatial_anti-aliasing/od0SgvLy">antialiasing</a> and <a href="/facts/Portable_Network_Graphics/mwgK6xw5">PNG</a> export.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.levien.com/libart/">Official website</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.levien.com/svg/">Gnome Illustration app</a> (levien.com)</li> <li><a href="https://people.gnome.org/~mathieu/libart/libart.html">The libart library – a tutorial</a> (gnome.org)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"README". Archive/libart_lgpl. GNOME GitLab. 24 January 2005. Retrieved 2021-10-13. <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libart_lgpl/-/blob/master/README" target="_blank">https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libart_lgpl/-/blob/master/README</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>