Hi all
After some experimenting with cairo, I read in the cairo FAQ the following:
"cairo_show_text is part of cairo's "toy" text API. It's fine for quick demos, and for learning how to use cairo, but it's not intended for use in actual applications."
so they say to use pango.
Pangocairo is installed as part of pygtk, and it seems to work.
As wxPython users, pango can be considered / will be the right way of showing text in a cairo context? and is that pangocairo the right library to use?