Documentation (API reference, Tutorials, Guides, et. al.)

API Reference: The API documentation (including the pages you are reading now) have been generated with Doxygen.

The most current documentation for papyrus is available online here:

papyrus - http://libpapyrus.sf.net/papyrus

Key sections within the API reference

Namespaces
Detailed class documentation in the Class Hierarchy
Class List

Guides: Quickstart Guide: If you're new to papyrus you might want to start with the Quick Start Guide to Papyrus

Drawing Guide: The following contains a list of drawables in Papyrus (this occasionally gets out of date as new shapes are added). Each of the links below leads to a page that illustrates images that were generated by Papyrus, and also include the code that actually generated the example images.

Renderable (Base class for rendering items into a cairomm context)
Drawable (Base class for drawing items with affine transforms)
- Shape (Base class for shape items with strokes and fills)
  - Arcs
  - Bezierlines
  - Beziergon
  - Circles
  - Polylines
  - Polygons
  - Rectangles
  - Regular Polygons
  - Text
- Groups
  - Boxed Groups
- Images

: Using a Viewbox : ViewBoxes are conceptually the same as the viewBox attribute in SVG.

: Papyrus' use of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) paradigm : Papyrus utilizes the Model-View-Controller paradigm. Check out this page to see more on how and why it is used and which classes provide the core of the MVC implementation.