URFACE</a></td>
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<td class="datatype_keyword">enum</td>
<td class="function_name"><a class="link" href="cairo-Image-Surfaces.html#cairo-format-t" title="enum cairo_format_t">cairo_format_t</a></td>
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<a name="cairo-Image-Surfaces.description"></a><h2>Description</h2>
<p>Image surfaces provide the ability to render to memory buffers
either allocated by cairo or by the calling code.  The supported
image formats are those defined in <a class="