1The GNOME canvas is an engine for structured graphics that
2offers a rich imaging model, high performance rendering, and a
3powerful, high-level API.  It offers a choice of two rendering
4back-ends, one based on Xlib for extremely fast display, and
5another based on Libart, a sophisticated, antialiased,
6alpha-compositing engine.  Applications have a choice between
7the Xlib imaging model or a superset of the PostScript imaging
8model, depending on the level of graphic sophistication
9required.
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