Re: cairo_font_face_t not freeing

Uli Schlachter <[email protected]>
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On 04.05.2017 00:59, Louis M wrote:
> On 05/03/2017 05:54 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> If you pass it the same FT_Face, you will get back the same
>> cairo_font_face_t.
> 
> Is there a way to disable this functionality. For example, if I want to
> show a preview of every font in the system. and then use this font in
> the program, I don't want every font in the system to be in cairo cache.

No and I do not think you should.

I'm not completely sure how this cache works, but I doubt that it "keeps
to things" indefinitely. It might even just be a most-recently-used
cache so that it only ever keeps one font alive - I'm not sure.

Cheers,
Uli
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