Re: Rendering "in memory" using pango

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 00:55 -0700, Matthew Willis wrote:
> I'm using pango to render text that eventually ends up in an opengl
> texture.  I just need to supply opengl with a byte-array, and I have
> been using the cairo backend to render to an image surface in order to
> get the bytes.
> 
> Is there a way I can cut cairo out of the picture and just get the bytes
> that correspond to a pango layout from pango directly?  Pango's front
> page mentions this capability, but I have scoured the documentation
> without finding it.  What does the front page mean by:
> 
> "Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or *directly to an
> in-memory buffer with no additional libraries*." (emphasis mine)

That's what the pangoft2 backend does.  Check the pango_ft2_* functions.
However, I don't recommend using that backend anymore.  The only
*supported* backend at this time is pangocairo, and the only one seeing
future development.


> Thank you for your help,
> Matthew Willis

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