Hey,<br><br>Have you ever considered using AGG as the rendering engine in Inkscape?<br>AGG (AntiGrain Geometry,  <a href="http://www.antigrain.com/">http://www.antigrain.com/</a>) is a very high quality<br>and fast C++ 2D graphics engine and there's even an SVG renderer based on it
<br>(<a href="http://www.antigrain.com/svg/index.html">http://www.antigrain.com/svg/index.html</a>).<br><br>Cairo seems to be very slow in all the benchmarks so I don't think it's very<br>suitable. You should take a look at the AGG examples and join the AGG mailing
<br>list for more info.<br><br>&nbsp;-- Juha Varkki<br>