<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Hi,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I had encountered a multi-thread issue in cairo-win32-font.c line 133 to line 153 (_get_global_font_dc()). There is a static variable in this function and when two threas are rendering the text. Although they dosen't share any cairo_t* or cairo_surface_t* it will end up failing the cairo rendering because of this static variable. I am not sure if anyone had reported this problem but I think the protection should be done in cairo library (I think cairo is a thread safty library, correct me if I am wrong). It doesn't make sence to protect in the application level: protecting threads that dosen't share anyhing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>any ideas?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks,</DIV> <DIV>Nick</DIV></div><br></body></html>