Owen Taylor wrote: > ...
If I had to take a guess at the right direction, it's to go on top of GDI+ for now (with heavy image fallbacks), and look at writing a Direct3D backend later.
How much of an advantage is GDI+ over GDI? I agree that the need for printing favors GDI+/GDI over the other two. My interest in cairo is mainly driven by the future use of it by gtk and its printing support. I don't anticipate that I'll be using many of the advanced graphics capabilities.
John