[cairo] Pango and pixbuf

[Carl Worth]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:40:39 +0000, "Ignas B." wrote:
> is it possible to draw text not in to GdkDrawable but into GdkPixbuf?

What's the eventual goal for that?

In general GdkPixbuf is an inefficient thing to draw _into_, and
should be avoided. GdkPixbuf is still useful as a way to load images
of many formats, so it's useful to use GdkPixbuf as a source to get
image data _from_ but not much after that.

What I wonder is if you've got some API that wants a GdkPixbuf and
nothing else. If so, that API should probably be fixed to work with a
cairo_surface_t or so.

> If there is no direct function for that, would it be possible to extract
> pixel data from the PangoLayout ?

You can definitely use cairo_image_surface_create_for_data, then
cairo_create to target that surface and render your PangoLayout into
there. That gives you direct access to all the pixel data.

-Carl
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