Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends

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  1. Skia

    Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.

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  3. bgfx

    Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

  4. nanovg

    Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.

  5. NanoGUI

    Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

  6. piet

    An abstraction for 2D graphics.

  7. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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