# Cairo::FtFontFace Class Reference

Inherits Cairo::FontFace.

List of all members.

## Static Public Member Functions

static RefPtr< FtFontFace > | create (FT_Face face, int load_flags)
| Creates a new font face for the FreeType font backend from a pre-opened FreeType face.
static RefPtr< FtFontFace > | create (FcPattern* pattern)
| Creates a new font face for the FreeType font backend based on a fontconfig pattern.

## Protected Member Functions

| FtFontFace (FT_Face face, int load_flags)
| FtFontFace (FcPattern* pattern)

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Cairo::FtFontFace::FtFontFace | ( | FT_Face | face,
|  | int | load_flags |
| ) |  |  | `[protected]`

Cairo::FtFontFace::FtFontFace | ( | FcPattern * | pattern | ) | `[protected]`

## Member Function Documentation

static RefPtr<FtFontFace> Cairo::FtFontFace::create | ( | FcPattern * | pattern | ) | `[static]`

Creates a new font face for the FreeType font backend based on a fontconfig pattern.

This font can then be used with Context::set_font_face() or FtScaledFont::create().

Font rendering options are represented both here and when you call FtScaledFont::create(). Font options that have a representation in a FcPattern must be passed in here; to modify FcPattern appropriately to reflect the options in a FontOptions, call FontOptions::substitute().

The pattern's FC_FT_FACE element is inspected first and if that is set, that will be the FreeType font face associated with the returned cairo font face. Otherwise the FC_FILE and FC_INDEX elements of pattern are used to load a font face from file.

If the FC_FT_FACE element of pattern is set, the user is responsible for making sure that the referenced FT_Face remains valid for the life time of the returned FtFontFace. See FtFontFace::create() for an exmaple of how to couple the life time of the FT_Face to that of the cairo font-face.

Parameters:

  | pattern | A fully resolved fontconfig pattern. A pattern can be resolved, by, among other things, calling FcConfigSubstitute(), FcDefaultSubstitute(), then FcFontMatch(). Cairo will call FcPatternReference() on this pattern, so you should not further modify the pattern, but you can release your reference to the pattern with FcPatternDestroy() if you no longer need to access it.

Since:
  1.8

static RefPtr<FtFontFace> Cairo::FtFontFace::create | ( | FT_Face | face,
|  | int | load_flags |
| ) |  |  | `[static]`

Creates a new font face for the FreeType font backend from a pre-opened FreeType face.

This font can then be used with Context::set_font_face() or FtScaledFont::create().

As an example, here is how one might correctly couple the lifetime of the FreeType face object to the FtFontFace:

     static const cairo_user_data_key_t key;

     font_face = cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face (ft_face, 0);
     status = cairo_font_face_set_user_data (font_face, &key,
                                    ft_face, (cairo_destroy_func_t) FT_Done_Face);
     if (status) {
        cairo_font_face_destroy (font_face);
        FT_Done_Face (ft_face);
        return ERROR;
     }

Parameters:

  | face | A FreeType face object, already opened. This must be kept around until the face's ref_count drops to zero and it is freed. Since the face may be referenced internally to Cairo, the best way to determine when it is safe to free the face is to pass a cairo_destroy_func_t to cairo_font_face_set_user_data().
  | load_flags | flags to pass to FT_Load_Glyph when loading glyphs from the font. These flags are OR'ed together with the flags derived from the cairo_font_options_t passed to cairo_scaled_font_create(), so only a few values such as FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_LAYOUT, and FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT are useful. You should not pass any of the flags affecting the load target, such as FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT.

Since:
  1.8

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- cairomm/fontface.h