[cairo] size of canvas

[Kalle Vahlman]

2007/7/24, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 10:23 -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> > Given a context (or a surface), is it possible to find its size?  Eg
> > if I created a pdf surface of size width x height, and a context on
> > it, could I recover its size solely from the context?
>
> Not currently, no.

For the record, there are at least two surface types (image and xlib)
that make this possible, trough querying first the target surface from
the context, then checking the type of the surface and then using the
surface-specific getters for the dimensions.

Hardly optimal though.

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