[cairo] questions about using scaled_font

[raja]

micah,
you can get the required details using
cairo_text_extents, cairo_font_extents
http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Text.html#id2628609

regards,
raja

Micah Heyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I haven't used cairo very much so pardon me if this is a rather newbish
> question,I need to know the size a the text before I start rendering, so
> I thought ,I would use scaled_font.My question is do I use
> 'cairo_scaled_font_text_extents("string")' to find out the size of my
> text and the during the render process use 'cairo_show_text("string")'
> or is there some sort of caching that is done so I don't need to use
> cairo_show_text?
>
> -micah 
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