[cairo] Newbie Question

[Jay Gee]

Greetings to the list.

I was searching around the cairo site
for a good introductory primer on how
cairo is used as a font and graphics
manager for a web site.  Unfortunately
I could not find anything.

Am I correct in believing that cairo
and associated font libraries can be
loaded on a web server in their own
directories, then through some porting
mechanism via html, java or javascript
programming, linked to site visitors'
browsers so that a wider variety of
fonts may be used than only those
residing in the visitors computer?

Can anyone recommend some good links or
a good book to help me get up to speed?

TIA

Jay