[cairo] text to postscript rendering

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Feb 27 02:36:57 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 05:28 -0500, Jürgen Ladstätter wrote:
> 
> I found out that cairo can render to postscript as a backend and also
> has
> some text functions like cairo_show_text(), now my question is: does
> cairo
> render the output to curvelines (or simple lines), or does it only
> store
> font informations?

Yes, simply do cairo_text_path() followed by cairo_fill() or
cairo_stroke().

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