Rasterific-0.6: README.md

Rasterific
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Rasterific is a Haskell rasterization engine (a vectorial renderer)
implemented on top of [JuicyPixels](https://github.com/Twinside/Juicy.Pixels).
Rasterific bases its text rendering on [FontyFruity](https://github.com/Twinside/FontyFruity).

Main capability
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 * Draw vector graphics to an image.
 * Export graphics to PDF (since 0.6).

Design
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The renderer design is based on the
[Nile](https://github.com/damelang/nile) /
[Gezira](https://github.com/damelang/gezira) renderer from the STEP
project from the [VPRI](http://www.vpri.org/index.html) institute. The
interesting thing about this renderer is the conciseness of it's
implementation, providing antialiased rendering in the way.