The target audience is people who already have some experience of programming and who are familiar with the jvm. Youre used to creating interfaces in other languages like java, and want to create something like that in scala. There is a current callforcomments to create a llection. In scala, this is a keyword and used to refer current object. By default cairo will emit language level 3 postscript. An insiders guide to cairo by carl worth, presented at the desktop developers conference in july 2005. The original snippets were created by oyvind kolas for a paper submitted to guadec 2004.
Scala source code is intended to be compiled to java bytecode, so that the resulting executable code runs on a java virtual machine. The original code snippets have been translated to c, the text has only been changed as much as necessary. The following set of sections provides a quick tutorial on the scala language. You can call instance variables, methods, constructors by using this keyword. Following is the example which shows you how to read from test. Cairographicsbased svg, pdf and postscript graphics devices.
Scott dillard has said of the opengl graphics library bindings in haskell. Scala style guide in lieu of an o cial style guide from epfl, or even an uno cial guide from a community site like artima, this document is intended to outline some basic scala stylistic guidelines which should be followed with more or less fervency. Scala does not require semicolons at the end of state. Cairo enables the drawing of antialiased vector graphics and transparent objects. Create a new cairo based graphics device description. Another one would be element wise manipulation, of which weve already seen an example with the splat operator. Rotation of view can be static, i dont need that animated. Cairo samples this page contains samples of cairo s rendered output and the code snippets used to create them. Random object simplegui extends simpleswingapplication def top new mainframe top is a required method title a sample scala swing gui declare components here val label new label text im a big label. The size of the pdf file is specified in points, which is a standard in typesetting. Jbig2 data in pdf must be in the embedded format as described in isoiec 11544. Illegal argument exceptions should be thrown only if the type system cannot express a reasonable set of constraints for example, scala does not allow you to specify ranged integers as types. Integrating scala into an existing project in java stack.
These are all part of the language, and, as such, can be found in any text that properly describe the language, such as scala specification pdf itself. If you just enjoy programming or are exploring scala then you will find nathan hamblens scala version of processing a pure delight. The vector graphics application inkscape uses the cairo library for its outline mode display, as well as for pdf and postscript export since release 0. The snippets are meant to be short, and easy to understand. There is a current callforcomments to create a scala. For example, we could extend our readme example by filtering the lines in the file that contain a word, such as python, as shown in example 24 for python and example 25 for scala. Scala vs java api vs python spark was originally written in scala, which allows concise function syntax and interactive use java api added for standalone applications python api added more recently along with an interactive shell. Does not explain what the issue with cairo is, though. The current implementation produces highquality png, jpeg, tiff bitmap files, high resolution pdf files with embedded fonts, svg graphics and postscript files. Cairo multiplatform 2d graphics library what is cairo cairo is a 2d graphics library with support for multiple output devices.
Sample run of chapters interpreter examples step 1. It reduces the number of lines and helps the programmer to code in a typesafe way. Cairocks is a small library of useful, common cairo routines. Designed to be concise, many of scalas design decisions aimed to address criticisms of java. Also very importantly, it uses the apache pdfbox library to read pdf files and extract their text. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of graphics programming in cairo library. Bezier gradients, also known as type 67 gradients in pspdf parlance, are. Experimental backends include opengl, beos, os2, and directfb. Scala smoothly integrates features of objectoriented and functional languages.
In the following example, this is used to call instance variables and primary constructotr. The pdf surface is used to render cairo graphics to adobe pdf files and is a multipage vector surface backend. Global headquarters 7 great valley parkway suite 300 malvern pa 19355 toll free. This tutorial will teach you basics and some advanced topics of the cairo 2d vector drawing library. Introduction to scala and spark sei digital library. Mirco macslow muller wrote a cairo clock that is a good example of how to use cairo and librsvg in a real application. This tutorial is derived from michael urmans cairo tutorial for python programmers. Java2d backend would be cool, because then i would have a straight forward pdf export facility for figures.
We will discuss its different methods along with various r graphic devices. Additionally cairo allows you to render graphics to postscript or pdf output for. Cairo is a 2d graphics library with support for multiple output devices. The contents is based on the moocs functional programming principles in scala and functional program design in scala. How to use a scala trait as an interface like a java. Scala enables you to use all the classes of the java sdk and also your own custom java classes, or your favorite java open source projects. Making graphics easy to print by carl worth, presented at nf. Im a scala software engineer and i just recently started learning category theory by category theory for programmers book ive been using cats library before in production and for personal purpose purposes for some time correct me if im wrong, it implements some if not all concepts from category theory and im wondering how knowledge of theoretical basis will help me to become a. What are some interesting scala projects to examine for. Purpose is to maintain easy to understand code snippets here which can be copied and used in regular projects. He has created an ide where you can write scala programs that access the incredible power of the processing projects graphics library. In contrast to scala collections breeze data structures do support negative indexes, for example to obtain the last value in a vector. Svg is a language for describing twodimensional graphics in xml xml10. Scala has been created by martin odersky and he released the first version in 2003.
All of his original snippet code is considered to be part of the public. For example a4 paper is 595 points wide by 842 points high. The value color was bound based on an ifelse expression. This is an excerpt from the scala cookbook partially modified for the internet. R runs on many different operating systems and also supports different graphics formats. In this part of the cairo graphics programming tutorial, we will talk about transformations. The gnome foundations cairo 2d graphics toolkit is perfect for. Currently supported output targets include the x window system via both xlib and xcb, quartz, win32, image buffers, postscript, pdf, and svg file output. The cairo graphics library should be installed behind the scenes when you install ryou should not need to install any rspecific cairo libraries or anything for this to work. A program called gtkvectorscreenshot found in debian allows for taking vector svg, pdf, or. Browse other questions tagged scala graphics 2d or. Learn more small example on getting cairo graphics to work with mfc. Cairo has modeled the postscript and portable document format pdf approach because they both use mathematical statements to define the image.
You can use the pdc pointer to draw the cairo surface, ie. The poppler library uses cairo to render pdf documents. This algebraic notation of the image allows the entire image, or just a portion of the image, to be recreated at any time by evaluating the algebraic description over the range of interest. You can use scalas source class and its companion object to read files. The last one, the underscore, deserve a special description, because it is widely used, and has different meanings depending on the context. Also, how about developing a scala wrapper for jgrapht. Currently supported output targets include the x window system via both xlib and xcb, quartz, win32, and image buffers, as well as pdf, postscript, and svg file output. The code is based on javafx example handling javafx events, part 3.
Pragmatic scala 4 by venkat subramaniam offers a great, approachable booklength treatment, as does scala for the impatient5 by cay horstmann. Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available for example, through the x render extension. Cviewondraw you should implement the ondraw method for your cview inherited. Getting specific values from a vector can be achieved by using an index. In this section of the cairo graphics tutorial, we will use cairo to create a png image, pdf file. Graph for scala is now beyond the discussion stage, and a workinprogress. Jul 03, 2019 svg svg device based on cairo graphics. Here is a complete example that shows some drawing functions drawing. Create a new cairobased graphics device description. Cairographicsbased svg, pdf and postscript graphics. Mar 06, 2016 another one would be element wise manipulation, of which weve already seen an example with the splat operator. Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display. The source code for this project is written in scala, and the gui uses akka actors to help keep the gui from coming to a screaming halt when the pdf file is read. Just wires, occlusion would be nice, but its not 100% necessary.
I implement java interfaces and extend java classes in scala with no problems. Learn to save graphs to files in r programming with r graphical. I work on a mixed java scala project right now previously a javaonly project. Cairo initializes a new graphics device that uses the cairo graphics library for rendering. Cairo wurde in c geschrieben, zudem gibt es sprachbindungen zu vielen anderen programmiersprachen, unter anderem haskell, java, perl, ruby, python, scheme, smalltalk. On the other hand, they can on suitable platforms include a much wider range of utf8 glyphs, and embed the fonts used. Detailed description can be found in the blog post getting started with scalafx. The cairo api provides operations similar to the drawing operators of postscript and pdf. Heres how you can use ggplotggsave and cairo to create pdf with embedded custom fonts and pngs with correct resolutions full instructions for macos. About the tutorial scala tutorial scala is a modern multiparadigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and typesafe way. The gv documentation lists some common paper sizes and the size in points. The primary use of patterns is as the source for all cairo drawing operations, although they can also be used as masks, that is, as the brush too. The apache batik toolkit is an implementation of svg built on the java 2d library. The example shown here will produce a pdf, ps, png, svg, and gtk window.
Neat graphics with scala processing the scala programming. Programming in scala,6 by martin odersky, lex spoon, and bill venners, is. Dave gurnells and noel welshcreative scalas 2 or martin oderskys func tional programming principles in scala3 online course are both excellent re sources. Converting pdf content to plain text with scala or java. Working with r, cairo graphics, custom fonts, and ggplot. You can use scala s source class and its companion object to read files. Apachetm batik svg toolkit a javabased toolkit for applications. Our calculator example gave an example of how scala is expressionoriented. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. Remember, there is no difference as far as the jvm is concerned between a.