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Reputation:

pyCairo Stack images

I'm using pycairo to compose images.

Currently I am creating my ImageSurface from a base image and setting a Context from this Surface.

surface = cairo.ImageSurface.create_from_png("base.png")
ctx = cairo.Context (surface)

Then I can for example add text on top:

# draw text
ctx.select_font_face('Sans')
ctx.set_font_size(20) 
ctx.move_to(10, 90)
ctx.set_source_rgb(1.00, 0.83, 0.00)    # yellow
ctx.show_text('Hello World')

And finally stroking and saving

ctx.stroke() 
surface.write_to_png('hello_world.png') # write to file

Apart from text, I also need to load other images and put then on top of my base image at specific locations.

Should I create another surface from a new image and then stack the surfaces, or can I directly load the new image into the context at an specific location as I do with text?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 573

Answers (1)

Uli Schlachter
Uli Schlachter

Reputation: 9877

You cannot directly load images into a context. You need more surfaces.

Upvotes: 0

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