[cairo] cairo_font_face_create_from_file/data()

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:56 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 18:15 +0800, Jinghua Luo wrote:
> > 
> > > One issue that can be improved is the from_data() function that in
> > cairo
> > > design should be from_stream(), but FreeType for example doesn't
> > have a
> > > from_stream() API so ft implementation would have to read in the
> > font
> > > data first which is not optimal.
> > >   
> > FT_Open_Face[1] should do what you want. 
> 
> Ah right.  Thanks.

Ok, I take that back :).

FreeType streams need to be seekable.


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