[cairo] Re: Public api for getting cairo_glyph_t

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Mon Jan 9 11:25:34 PST 2006


On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:31:42 -0600, Mike Emmel wrote:
> 
>  Cairo doesn't expose any way of converting input text
>  * into glyphs, so in order to use the Cairo interfaces that take
>  * arrays of glyphs, you must directly access the appropriate
>  * underlying font system.

That's correct. And it's by design. You must use the underlying font
system in order to use cairo's glyph-based APIs.

-Carl
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