[cairo] PDF output, drawing text

Dan Amelang daniel.amelang at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 10:05:54 PDT 2007


On 6/10/07, Torsten Mohr <tmohr at s.netic.de> wrote:
>
> Can i also draw some basic text with cairo on a PDF surface and make
> use of PDFs internal fonts?

Have you tried calling cairo_select_font_face with your desired font
family and then calling cairo_show_text to see what gets put in the
PDF?

If all you need is very basic text, that might do the trick. I'm not
the PDF expert around here, though.

Dan


More information about the cairo mailing list