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""" This backend supports Kiva drawing into memory buffers.

    Though this can be used to perform drawing in non-GUI applications,
    the Image backend is also used by many of the GUI backends to draw into
    the memory space of the graphics contexts.
"""

# Soon the Agg subpackage will be renamed for real.  For now, just
# proxy the imports.
from agg import GraphicsContextArray as GraphicsContext

# FontType will be unified with the Kiva FontType soon.
from agg import AggFontType as FontType

# GraphicsContextSystem wraps up platform- and toolkit- specific low
# level calls with a GraphicsContextArray.  Eventually this low-level code
# will be moved out of the Agg subpackage, and we won't have be importing
# this here.
from agg import GraphicsContextSystem, Image

# CompiledPath is an object that can efficiently store paths to be reused
# multiple times.
from agg import CompiledPath

def font_metrics_provider():
    """ Create an object to be used for querying font metrics.
    """

    return GraphicsContext((1, 1))

