render texts to a buffer/drawable

[Ronald Bultje <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

Hi people,

does Gtk or any other lib offer the option to render texts to a drawable
or a RGB-buffer (in the best case: a gdk-pixbuf)? In the best case, it
would work something like some_function(char *font, char *text) (font
being the font as provided by the gtk-font-selection-dialog
(-courier-new-bla--bla-*-*-*-*-) and text being the string to be
rendered) and render the text to a gdk-pixbuf :-)

I tried gimp until now but I didn't get any further than #include
<libgimp/gimp.h> and add `gimp-config --cflags` to my LDFLAGS, after
which the application complained about a missing reference to
PLUG_IN_INFO (although I did have a GimpPlugInInfo PLUG_IN_INFO = {
NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL}; in my application) so I'm probably doing
something wrong there...

Anyway, any help on going from GtkFontSelectionDialog to a text rendered
in a GdkPixbuf would be appreciated.

Regards,

Ronald

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