[cairo] font lifetime

[Owen Taylor]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:47 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I'm making xpdf work with the new font changes, and I have a question.
> 
> If i call cairo_ft_font_create_for_ft_face with a FT_Face. How do I know
> how long i need to keep the FT_Face around? The cairo_font_t object is
> passed around internally in cairo, and can end up in all sorts of caches
> and stuff, complicating its lifecycle.

One of the outstanding issues ... see my last long mail on fonts. I want
to add a destroy notifier, but am getting resistance on the subject.

It's documented right now (yes, documented :) as "forever".

Regards,
					Owen


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