[cairo] Pango cairo target surface size

[Rob Kramer]

On 03/24/2015 11:21 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:41:40 +0800, Rob Kramer wrote:
>
>> What I want to do is paint a string to a surface the same size as the
>> text's logical extents -- without doing the text layouting twice
> Why is it important that it is not done twice?

Efficiency, elegance, etc. I'm just trying to find out if cairo pango 
has a better way to do this..