Re: [ft] FT_Face_Copy()?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Their recommended solution was to not use the FT cache.  :P
> [Apparently, Pango doesn't use the cache, and they've never seen
> anyone else use it either...]

Hmm.  I suppose Cairo has a cache of own...  Otherwise, you have a
loss of efficiency and you should file a bug report.

>> Adding an `FT_Face_Copy' shouldn't be very hard, but I'm not sure
>> it is the right solution to this problem.
> 
> I guess, given Davids comments in the other message, that this
> function may actually be a 'no-go' for FT.

I could imagine that such an FT_Face_Copy function has an optional
parameter to a user-provided function which duplicates a stream...


    Werner