Can cairo load a PDF?

Question

This sounds really simple, but I can't find a way to load a PDF into Cairo. I want to be able to do cairo.PDFSurface.create_from_pdf in the same way I do cairo.ImageSurface.create_from_png (yes I'm using the Python bindings but that's neither here nor there).

The documentation doesn't appear to give any hints.

Answer 1

No, cairo cannot read PDFs. However, poppler can load PDFs an paint them onto a cairo context - http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

(Oh and create_from_png() is part of cairo's toy API. It works, but you are recommended to use some "real" API which can do more things than just loading PNGs)