<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> (sorry for my english) Hi All, Here small sample code to reproduce: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"> <pre class="bz_comment_text" id="comment_text_0" style="font-size: medium; font-family: monospace; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 50em;">#include <cairo/cairo.h> int main( int argc, char** argv ) { cairo_surface_t* surface = cairo_image_surface_create( CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, 40, 15 ); cairo_t* target = cairo_create( surface ); // Height of region must by only 5 px cairo_rectangle( target, 0, 0, 40, 5 ); cairo_clip( target ); cairo_set_font_size( target, 12 ); cairo_select_font_face( target, "sans", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL ); cairo_set_source_rgb( target, 0, 0, 0 ); cairo_move_to( target, 0, 12 ); cairo_show_text( target, "TEST" ); cairo_stroke( target ); cairo_reset_clip( target ); cairo_surface_write_to_png( surface, "1.png" ); return 0; } Result file attached - no clipping at all. </pre> </body> </html>