cairo_font_face_t

cairo_font_face_t — Base class for font faces

Functions

Types and Values

Description

cairo_font_face_t represents a particular font at a particular weight, slant, and other characteristic but no size, transformation, or size.

Font faces are created using font-backend-specific constructors, typically of the form cairo_backend_font_face_create(), or implicitly using the toy text API by way of cairo_select_font_face(). The resulting face can be accessed using cairo_get_font_face().

Functions

cairo_font_face_reference ()

cairo_font_face_t *
cairo_font_face_reference (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

Increases the reference count on font_face by one. This prevents font_face from being destroyed until a matching call to cairo_font_face_destroy() is made.

Use cairo_font_face_get_reference_count() to get the number of references to a cairo_font_face_t.

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t, (may be NULL in which case this function does nothing).

 

Returns

the referenced cairo_font_face_t.

Since: 1.0


cairo_font_face_destroy ()

void
cairo_font_face_destroy (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

Decreases the reference count on font_face by one. If the result is zero, then font_face and all associated resources are freed. See cairo_font_face_reference().

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t

 

Since: 1.0


cairo_font_face_status ()

cairo_status_t
cairo_font_face_status (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

Checks whether an error has previously occurred for this font face

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t

 

Returns

CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS or another error such as CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY.

Since: 1.0


cairo_font_face_get_type ()

cairo_font_type_t
cairo_font_face_get_type (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

This function returns the type of the backend used to create a font face. See cairo_font_type_t for available types.

Parameters

font_face

a font face

 

Returns

The type of font_face .

Since: 1.2


cairo_font_face_get_reference_count ()

unsigned int
cairo_font_face_get_reference_count (cairo_font_face_t *font_face);

Returns the current reference count of font_face .

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t

 

Returns

the current reference count of font_face . If the object is a nil object, 0 will be returned.

Since: 1.4


cairo_font_face_set_user_data ()

cairo_status_t
cairo_font_face_set_user_data (cairo_font_face_t *font_face,
                               const cairo_user_data_key_t *key,
                               void *user_data,
                               cairo_destroy_func_t destroy);

Attach user data to font_face . To remove user data from a font face, call this function with the key that was used to set it and NULL for data .

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t

 

key

the address of a cairo_user_data_key_t to attach the user data to

 

user_data

the user data to attach to the font face

 

destroy

a cairo_destroy_func_t which will be called when the font face is destroyed or when new user data is attached using the same key.

 

Returns

CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS or CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY if a slot could not be allocated for the user data.

Since: 1.0


cairo_font_face_get_user_data ()

void *
cairo_font_face_get_user_data (cairo_font_face_t *font_face,
                               const cairo_user_data_key_t *key);

Return user data previously attached to font_face using the specified key. If no user data has been attached with the given key this function returns NULL.

Parameters

font_face

a cairo_font_face_t

 

key

the address of the cairo_user_data_key_t the user data was attached to

 

Returns

the user data previously attached or NULL.

Since: 1.0

Types and Values

cairo_font_face_t

typedef struct _cairo_font_face cairo_font_face_t;

A cairo_font_face_t specifies all aspects of a font other than the size or font matrix (a font matrix is used to distort a font by shearing it or scaling it unequally in the two directions) . A font face can be set on a cairo_t by using cairo_set_font_face(); the size and font matrix are set with cairo_set_font_size() and cairo_set_font_matrix().

There are various types of font faces, depending on the font backend they use. The type of a font face can be queried using cairo_font_face_get_type().

Memory management of cairo_font_face_t is done with cairo_font_face_reference() and cairo_font_face_destroy().

Since: 1.0


enum cairo_font_type_t

cairo_font_type_t is used to describe the type of a given font face or scaled font. The font types are also known as "font backends" within cairo.

The type of a font face is determined by the function used to create it, which will generally be of the form cairo_type_font_face_create(). The font face type can be queried with cairo_font_face_get_type()

The various cairo_font_face_t functions can be used with a font face of any type.

The type of a scaled font is determined by the type of the font face passed to cairo_scaled_font_create(). The scaled font type can be queried with cairo_scaled_font_get_type()

The various cairo_scaled_font_t functions can be used with scaled fonts of any type, but some font backends also provide type-specific functions that must only be called with a scaled font of the appropriate type. These functions have names that begin with cairo_type_scaled_font() such as cairo_ft_scaled_font_lock_face().

The behavior of calling a type-specific function with a scaled font of the wrong type is undefined.

New entries may be added in future versions.

Members

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_TOY

The font was created using cairo's toy font api (Since: 1.2)

 

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_FT

The font is of type FreeType (Since: 1.2)

 

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_WIN32

The font is of type Win32 (Since: 1.2)

 

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_QUARTZ

The font is of type Quartz (Since: 1.6, in 1.2 and 1.4 it was named CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_ATSUI)

 

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_USER

The font was create using cairo's user font api (Since: 1.8)

 

CAIRO_FONT_TYPE_DWRITE

The font is of type Win32 DWrite (Since: 1.18)

 

Since: 1.2

See Also

cairo_scaled_font_t