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I want to load a SVG file with the Cairo library, do apply some transformations to it. Then I want to display my svg with a glTexture.

But I just find functions which create svg file and not load svg.

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Cairo itself cannot read SVG files. You need something like librsvg to render SVGs to a Cairo surface.

From a quick look at their API documentation, it looks like you need rsvg_handle_new_from_file() to load a file and something like rsvg_handle_render_cairo() or rsvg_handle_get_pixbuf() to draw the SVG to a Cairo context / to turn the SVG into a GdkPixbuf.

amziraro
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