]> cairo_surface_t 3 CAIRO Library cairo_surface_t Base class for surfaces cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_similar () cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_similar_image () cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle () cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_reference () void cairo_surface_destroy () cairo_status_t cairo_surface_status () void cairo_surface_finish () void cairo_surface_flush () cairo_device_t * cairo_surface_get_device () void cairo_surface_get_font_options () cairo_content_t cairo_surface_get_content () void cairo_surface_mark_dirty () void cairo_surface_mark_dirty_rectangle () void cairo_surface_set_device_offset () void cairo_surface_get_device_offset () void cairo_surface_get_device_scale () void cairo_surface_set_device_scale () void cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution () void cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution () cairo_surface_type_t cairo_surface_get_type () unsigned int cairo_surface_get_reference_count () cairo_status_t cairo_surface_set_user_data () void * cairo_surface_get_user_data () void cairo_surface_copy_page () void cairo_surface_show_page () cairo_bool_t cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs () cairo_status_t cairo_surface_set_mime_data () void cairo_surface_get_mime_data () cairo_bool_t cairo_surface_supports_mime_type () cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_map_to_image () void cairo_surface_unmap_image () #defineCAIRO_HAS_MIME_SURFACE #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX_PARAMS #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS_PARAMS #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2 #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL_ID #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JP2 #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JPEG #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_PNG #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_URI #defineCAIRO_MIME_TYPE_UNIQUE_ID typedefcairo_surface_t enumcairo_content_t enumcairo_surface_type_t cairo_surface_t is the abstract type representing all different drawing targets that cairo can render to. The actual drawings are performed using a cairo context. A cairo surface is created by using backend-specific constructors, typically of the form cairo_backend_surface_create(). Most surface types allow accessing the surface without using Cairo functions. If you do this, keep in mind that it is mandatory that you call cairo_surface_flush() before reading from or writing to the surface and that you must use cairo_surface_mark_dirty() after modifying it. void modify_image_surface (cairo_surface_t *surface) { unsigned char *data; int width, height, stride; // flush to ensure all writing to the image was done cairo_surface_flush (surface); // modify the image data = cairo_image_surface_get_data (surface); width = cairo_image_surface_get_width (surface); height = cairo_image_surface_get_height (surface); stride = cairo_image_surface_get_stride (surface); modify_image_data (data, width, height, stride); // mark the image dirty so Cairo clears its caches. cairo_surface_mark_dirty (surface); } Note that for other surface types it might be necessary to acquire the surface's device first. See cairo_device_acquire() for a discussion of devices. cairo_surface_create_similar cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_similar (cairo_surface_t *other, cairo_content_t content, int width, int height); Create a new surface that is as compatible as possible with an existing surface. For example the new surface will have the same device scale, fallback resolution and font options as other . Generally, the new surface will also use the same backend as other , unless that is not possible for some reason. The type of the returned surface may be examined with cairo_surface_get_type(). Initially the surface contents are all 0 (transparent if contents have transparency, black otherwise.) Use cairo_surface_create_similar_image() if you need an image surface which can be painted quickly to the target surface. other an existing surface used to select the backend of the new surface content the content for the new surface width width of the new surface, (in device-space units) height height of the new surface (in device-space units) a pointer to the newly allocated surface. The caller owns the surface and should call cairo_surface_destroy() when done with it. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if other is already in an error state or any other error occurs. Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_create_similar_image cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_similar_image (cairo_surface_t *other, cairo_format_t format, int width, int height); Create a new image surface that is as compatible as possible for uploading to and the use in conjunction with an existing surface. However, this surface can still be used like any normal image surface. Unlike cairo_surface_create_similar() the new image surface won't inherit the device scale from other . Initially the surface contents are all 0 (transparent if contents have transparency, black otherwise.) Use cairo_surface_create_similar() if you don't need an image surface. other an existing surface used to select the preference of the new surface format the format for the new surface width width of the new surface, (in pixels) height height of the new surface (in pixels) a pointer to the newly allocated image surface. The caller owns the surface and should call cairo_surface_destroy() when done with it. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if other is already in an error state or any other error occurs. Since: 1.12 cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle (cairo_surface_t *target, double x, double y, double width, double height); Create a new surface that is a rectangle within the target surface. All operations drawn to this surface are then clipped and translated onto the target surface. Nothing drawn via this sub-surface outside of its bounds is drawn onto the target surface, making this a useful method for passing constrained child surfaces to library routines that draw directly onto the parent surface, i.e. with no further backend allocations, double buffering or copies. The semantics of subsurfaces have not been finalized yet unless the rectangle is in full device units, is contained within the extents of the target surface, and the target or subsurface's device transforms are not changed. target an existing surface for which the sub-surface will point to x the x-origin of the sub-surface from the top-left of the target surface (in device-space units) y the y-origin of the sub-surface from the top-left of the target surface (in device-space units) width width of the sub-surface (in device-space units) height height of the sub-surface (in device-space units) a pointer to the newly allocated surface. The caller owns the surface and should call cairo_surface_destroy() when done with it. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if other is already in an error state or any other error occurs. Since: 1.10 cairo_surface_reference cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_reference (cairo_surface_t *surface); Increases the reference count on surface by one. This prevents surface from being destroyed until a matching call to cairo_surface_destroy() is made. Use cairo_surface_get_reference_count() to get the number of references to a cairo_surface_t. surface a cairo_surface_t the referenced cairo_surface_t. Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_destroy void cairo_surface_destroy (cairo_surface_t *surface); Decreases the reference count on surface by one. If the result is zero, then surface and all associated resources are freed. See cairo_surface_reference(). surface a cairo_surface_t Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_status cairo_status_t cairo_surface_status (cairo_surface_t *surface); Checks whether an error has previously occurred for this surface. surface a cairo_surface_t CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS, CAIRO_STATUS_NULL_POINTER, CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY, CAIRO_STATUS_READ_ERROR, CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_CONTENT, CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_FORMAT, or CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_VISUAL. Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_finish void cairo_surface_finish (cairo_surface_t *surface); This function finishes the surface and drops all references to external resources. For example, for the Xlib backend it means that cairo will no longer access the drawable, which can be freed. After calling cairo_surface_finish() the only valid operations on a surface are getting and setting user, referencing and destroying, and flushing and finishing it. Further drawing to the surface will not affect the surface but will instead trigger a CAIRO_STATUS_SURFACE_FINISHED error. When the last call to cairo_surface_destroy() decreases the reference count to zero, cairo will call cairo_surface_finish() if it hasn't been called already, before freeing the resources associated with the surface. surface the cairo_surface_t to finish Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_flush void cairo_surface_flush (cairo_surface_t *surface); Do any pending drawing for the surface and also restore any temporary modifications cairo has made to the surface's state. This function must be called before switching from drawing on the surface with cairo to drawing on it directly with native APIs, or accessing its memory outside of Cairo. If the surface doesn't support direct access, then this function does nothing. surface a cairo_surface_t Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_get_device cairo_device_t * cairo_surface_get_device (cairo_surface_t *surface); This function returns the device for a surface . See cairo_device_t. surface a cairo_surface_t The device for surface or NULL if the surface does not have an associated device. Since: 1.10 cairo_surface_get_font_options void cairo_surface_get_font_options (cairo_surface_t *surface, cairo_font_options_t *options); Retrieves the default font rendering options for the surface. This allows display surfaces to report the correct subpixel order for rendering on them, print surfaces to disable hinting of metrics and so forth. The result can then be used with cairo_scaled_font_create(). surface a cairo_surface_t options a cairo_font_options_t object into which to store the retrieved options. All existing values are overwritten Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_get_content cairo_content_t cairo_surface_get_content (cairo_surface_t *surface); This function returns the content type of surface which indicates whether the surface contains color and/or alpha information. See cairo_content_t. surface a cairo_surface_t The content type of surface . Since: 1.2 cairo_surface_mark_dirty void cairo_surface_mark_dirty (cairo_surface_t *surface); Tells cairo that drawing has been done to surface using means other than cairo, and that cairo should reread any cached areas. Note that you must call cairo_surface_flush() before doing such drawing. surface a cairo_surface_t Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_mark_dirty_rectangle void cairo_surface_mark_dirty_rectangle (cairo_surface_t *surface, int x, int y, int width, int height); Like cairo_surface_mark_dirty(), but drawing has been done only to the specified rectangle, so that cairo can retain cached contents for other parts of the surface. Any cached clip set on the surface will be reset by this function, to make sure that future cairo calls have the clip set that they expect. surface a cairo_surface_t x X coordinate of dirty rectangle y Y coordinate of dirty rectangle width width of dirty rectangle height height of dirty rectangle Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_set_device_offset void cairo_surface_set_device_offset (cairo_surface_t *surface, double x_offset, double y_offset); Sets an offset that is added to the device coordinates determined by the CTM when drawing to surface . One use case for this function is when we want to create a cairo_surface_t that redirects drawing for a portion of an onscreen surface to an offscreen surface in a way that is completely invisible to the user of the cairo API. Setting a transformation via cairo_translate() isn't sufficient to do this, since functions like cairo_device_to_user() will expose the hidden offset. Note that the offset affects drawing to the surface as well as using the surface in a source pattern. surface a cairo_surface_t x_offset the offset in the X direction, in device units y_offset the offset in the Y direction, in device units Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_get_device_offset void cairo_surface_get_device_offset (cairo_surface_t *surface, double *x_offset, double *y_offset); This function returns the previous device offset set by cairo_surface_set_device_offset(). surface a cairo_surface_t x_offset the offset in the X direction, in device units y_offset the offset in the Y direction, in device units Since: 1.2 cairo_surface_get_device_scale void cairo_surface_get_device_scale (cairo_surface_t *surface, double *x_scale, double *y_scale); This function returns the previous device offset set by cairo_surface_set_device_scale(). surface a cairo_surface_t x_scale the scale in the X direction, in device units y_scale the scale in the Y direction, in device units Since: 1.14 cairo_surface_set_device_scale void cairo_surface_set_device_scale (cairo_surface_t *surface, double x_scale, double y_scale); Sets a scale that is multiplied to the device coordinates determined by the CTM when drawing to surface . One common use for this is to render to very high resolution display devices at a scale factor, so that code that assumes 1 pixel will be a certain size will still work. Setting a transformation via cairo_translate() isn't sufficient to do this, since functions like cairo_device_to_user() will expose the hidden scale. Note that the scale affects drawing to the surface as well as using the surface in a source pattern. surface a cairo_surface_t x_scale a scale factor in the X direction y_scale a scale factor in the Y direction Since: 1.14 cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution void cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution (cairo_surface_t *surface, double x_pixels_per_inch, double y_pixels_per_inch); Set the horizontal and vertical resolution for image fallbacks. When certain operations aren't supported natively by a backend, cairo will fallback by rendering operations to an image and then overlaying that image onto the output. For backends that are natively vector-oriented, this function can be used to set the resolution used for these image fallbacks, (larger values will result in more detailed images, but also larger file sizes). Some examples of natively vector-oriented backends are the ps, pdf, and svg backends. For backends that are natively raster-oriented, image fallbacks are still possible, but they are always performed at the native device resolution. So this function has no effect on those backends. Note: The fallback resolution only takes effect at the time of completing a page (with cairo_show_page() or cairo_copy_page()) so there is currently no way to have more than one fallback resolution in effect on a single page. The default fallback resoultion is 300 pixels per inch in both dimensions. surface a cairo_surface_t x_pixels_per_inch horizontal setting for pixels per inch y_pixels_per_inch vertical setting for pixels per inch Since: 1.2 cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution void cairo_surface_get_fallback_resolution (cairo_surface_t *surface, double *x_pixels_per_inch, double *y_pixels_per_inch); This function returns the previous fallback resolution set by cairo_surface_set_fallback_resolution(), or default fallback resolution if never set. surface a cairo_surface_t x_pixels_per_inch horizontal pixels per inch y_pixels_per_inch vertical pixels per inch Since: 1.8 cairo_surface_get_type cairo_surface_type_t cairo_surface_get_type (cairo_surface_t *surface); This function returns the type of the backend used to create a surface. See cairo_surface_type_t for available types. surface a cairo_surface_t The type of surface . Since: 1.2 cairo_surface_get_reference_count unsigned int cairo_surface_get_reference_count (cairo_surface_t *surface); Returns the current reference count of surface . surface a cairo_surface_t the current reference count of surface . If the object is a nil object, 0 will be returned. Since: 1.4 cairo_surface_set_user_data cairo_status_t cairo_surface_set_user_data (cairo_surface_t *surface, const cairo_user_data_key_t *key, void *user_data, cairo_destroy_func_t destroy); Attach user data to surface . To remove user data from a surface, call this function with the key that was used to set it and NULL for data . surface a cairo_surface_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 surface destroy a cairo_destroy_func_t which will be called when the surface is destroyed or when new user data is attached using the same key. CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS or CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY if a slot could not be allocated for the user data. Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_get_user_data void * cairo_surface_get_user_data (cairo_surface_t *surface, const cairo_user_data_key_t *key); Return user data previously attached to surface using the specified key. If no user data has been attached with the given key this function returns NULL. surface a cairo_surface_t key the address of the cairo_user_data_key_t the user data was attached to the user data previously attached or NULL. Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_copy_page void cairo_surface_copy_page (cairo_surface_t *surface); Emits the current page for backends that support multiple pages, but doesn't clear it, so that the contents of the current page will be retained for the next page. Use cairo_surface_show_page() if you want to get an empty page after the emission. There is a convenience function for this that takes a cairo_t, namely cairo_copy_page(). surface a cairo_surface_t Since: 1.6 cairo_surface_show_page void cairo_surface_show_page (cairo_surface_t *surface); Emits and clears the current page for backends that support multiple pages. Use cairo_surface_copy_page() if you don't want to clear the page. There is a convenience function for this that takes a cairo_t, namely cairo_show_page(). surface a cairo_Surface_t Since: 1.6 cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs cairo_bool_t cairo_surface_has_show_text_glyphs (cairo_surface_t *surface); Returns whether the surface supports sophisticated cairo_show_text_glyphs() operations. That is, whether it actually uses the provided text and cluster data to a cairo_show_text_glyphs() call. Note: Even if this function returns FALSE, a cairo_show_text_glyphs() operation targeted at surface will still succeed. It just will act like a cairo_show_glyphs() operation. Users can use this function to avoid computing UTF-8 text and cluster mapping if the target surface does not use it. surface a cairo_surface_t TRUE if surface supports cairo_show_text_glyphs(), FALSE otherwise Since: 1.8 cairo_surface_set_mime_data cairo_status_t cairo_surface_set_mime_data (cairo_surface_t *surface, const char *mime_type, const unsigned char *data, unsigned long length, cairo_destroy_func_t destroy, void *closure); Attach an image in the format mime_type to surface . To remove the data from a surface, call this function with same mime type and NULL for data . The attached image (or filename) data can later be used by backends which support it (currently: PDF, PS, SVG and Win32 Printing surfaces) to emit this data instead of making a snapshot of the surface . This approach tends to be faster and requires less memory and disk space. The recognized MIME types are the following: CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JPEG, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_PNG, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JP2, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_URI, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_UNIQUE_ID, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL_ID, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX, CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX_PARAMS. See corresponding backend surface docs for details about which MIME types it can handle. Caution: the associated MIME data will be discarded if you draw on the surface afterwards. Use this function with care. Even if a backend supports a MIME type, that does not mean cairo will always be able to use the attached MIME data. For example, if the backend does not natively support the compositing operation used to apply the MIME data to the backend. In that case, the MIME data will be ignored. Therefore, to apply an image in all cases, it is best to create an image surface which contains the decoded image data and then attach the MIME data to that. This ensures the image will always be used while still allowing the MIME data to be used whenever possible. surface a cairo_surface_t mime_type the MIME type of the image data data the image data to attach to the surface length the length of the image data destroy a cairo_destroy_func_t which will be called when the surface is destroyed or when new image data is attached using the same mime type. closure the data to be passed to the destroy notifier CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS or CAIRO_STATUS_NO_MEMORY if a slot could not be allocated for the user data. Since: 1.10 cairo_surface_get_mime_data void cairo_surface_get_mime_data (cairo_surface_t *surface, const char *mime_type, const unsigned char **data, unsigned long *length); Return mime data previously attached to surface using the specified mime type. If no data has been attached with the given mime type, data is set NULL. surface a cairo_surface_t mime_type the mime type of the image data data the image data to attached to the surface length the length of the image data Since: 1.10 cairo_surface_supports_mime_type cairo_bool_t cairo_surface_supports_mime_type (cairo_surface_t *surface, const char *mime_type); Return whether surface supports mime_type . surface a cairo_surface_t mime_type the mime type TRUE if surface supports mime_type , FALSE otherwise Since: 1.12 cairo_surface_map_to_image cairo_surface_t * cairo_surface_map_to_image (cairo_surface_t *surface, const cairo_rectangle_int_t *extents); Returns an image surface that is the most efficient mechanism for modifying the backing store of the target surface. The region retrieved may be limited to the extents or NULL for the whole surface Note, the use of the original surface as a target or source whilst it is mapped is undefined. The result of mapping the surface multiple times is undefined. Calling cairo_surface_destroy() or cairo_surface_finish() on the resulting image surface results in undefined behavior. Changing the device transform of the image surface or of surface before the image surface is unmapped results in undefined behavior. surface an existing surface used to extract the image from extents limit the extraction to an rectangular region a pointer to the newly allocated image surface. The caller must use cairo_surface_unmap_image() to destroy this image surface. This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if other is already in an error state or any other error occurs. If the returned pointer does not have an error status, it is guaranteed to be an image surface whose format is not CAIRO_FORMAT_INVALID. Since: 1.12 cairo_surface_unmap_image void cairo_surface_unmap_image (cairo_surface_t *surface, cairo_surface_t *image); Unmaps the image surface as returned from cairo_surface_map_to_image(). The content of the image will be uploaded to the target surface. Afterwards, the image is destroyed. Using an image surface which wasn't returned by cairo_surface_map_to_image() results in undefined behavior. surface the surface passed to cairo_surface_map_to_image(). image the currently mapped image Since: 1.12 CAIRO_HAS_MIME_SURFACE #define CAIRO_HAS_MIME_SURFACE 1 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX "image/g3fax" Group 3 or Group 4 CCITT facsimile encoding (International Telecommunication Union, Recommendations T.4 and T.6.) Since: 1.16 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX_PARAMS #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_CCITT_FAX_PARAMS "application/x-cairo.ccitt.params" Decode parameters for Group 3 or Group 4 CCITT facsimile encoding. See CCITT Fax Images. Since: 1.16 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS "application/postscript" Encapsulated PostScript file. Encapsulated PostScript File Format Specification Since: 1.16 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS_PARAMS #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_EPS_PARAMS "application/x-cairo.eps.params" Embedding parameters Encapsulated PostScript data. See Embedding EPS files. Since: 1.16 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2 #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2 "application/x-cairo.jbig2" Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group image coding standard (ISO/IEC 11544). Since: 1.14 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL "application/x-cairo.jbig2-global" Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group image coding standard (ISO/IEC 11544) global segment. Since: 1.14 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL_ID #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JBIG2_GLOBAL_ID "application/x-cairo.jbig2-global-id" An unique identifier shared by a JBIG2 global segment and all JBIG2 images that depend on the global segment. Since: 1.14 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JP2 #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JP2 "image/jp2" The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) 2000 image coding standard (ISO/IEC 15444-1). Since: 1.10 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JPEG #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_JPEG "image/jpeg" The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image coding standard (ISO/IEC 10918-1). Since: 1.10 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_PNG #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_PNG "image/png" The Portable Network Graphics image file format (ISO/IEC 15948). Since: 1.10 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_URI #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_URI "text/x-uri" URI for an image file (unofficial MIME type). Since: 1.10 CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_UNIQUE_ID #define CAIRO_MIME_TYPE_UNIQUE_ID "application/x-cairo.uuid" Unique identifier for a surface (cairo specific MIME type). All surfaces with the same unique identifier will only be embedded once. Since: 1.12 cairo_surface_t typedef struct _cairo_surface cairo_surface_t; A cairo_surface_t represents an image, either as the destination of a drawing operation or as source when drawing onto another surface. To draw to a cairo_surface_t, create a cairo context with the surface as the target, using cairo_create(). There are different subtypes of cairo_surface_t for different drawing backends; for example, cairo_image_surface_create() creates a bitmap image in memory. The type of a surface can be queried with cairo_surface_get_type(). The initial contents of a surface after creation depend upon the manner of its creation. If cairo creates the surface and backing storage for the user, it will be initially cleared; for example, cairo_image_surface_create() and cairo_surface_create_similar(). Alternatively, if the user passes in a reference to some backing storage and asks cairo to wrap that in a cairo_surface_t, then the contents are not modified; for example, cairo_image_surface_create_for_data() and cairo_xlib_surface_create(). Memory management of cairo_surface_t is done with cairo_surface_reference() and cairo_surface_destroy(). Since: 1.0 cairo_content_t cairo_content_t is used to describe the content that a surface will contain, whether color information, alpha information (translucence vs. opacity), or both. Note: The large values here are designed to keep cairo_content_t values distinct from cairo_format_t values so that the implementation can detect the error if users confuse the two types. CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR The surface will hold color content only. (Since 1.0) CAIRO_CONTENT_ALPHA The surface will hold alpha content only. (Since 1.0) CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA The surface will hold color and alpha content. (Since 1.0) Since: 1.0 cairo_surface_type_t cairo_surface_type_t is used to describe the type of a given surface. The surface types are also known as "backends" or "surface backends" within cairo. The type of a surface is determined by the function used to create it, which will generally be of the form cairo_type_surface_create(), (though see cairo_surface_create_similar() as well). The surface type can be queried with cairo_surface_get_type() The various cairo_surface_t functions can be used with surfaces of any type, but some backends also provide type-specific functions that must only be called with a surface of the appropriate type. These functions have names that begin with cairo_type_surface such as cairo_image_surface_get_width(). The behavior of calling a type-specific function with a surface of the wrong type is undefined. New entries may be added in future versions. CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_IMAGE The surface is of type image, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_PDF The surface is of type pdf, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_PS The surface is of type ps, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_XLIB The surface is of type xlib, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_XCB The surface is of type xcb, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_GLITZ The surface is of type glitz, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_QUARTZ The surface is of type quartz, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_WIN32 The surface is of type win32, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_BEOS The surface is of type beos, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_DIRECTFB The surface is of type directfb, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_SVG The surface is of type svg, since 1.2 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_OS2 The surface is of type os2, since 1.4 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_WIN32_PRINTING The surface is a win32 printing surface, since 1.6 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_QUARTZ_IMAGE The surface is of type quartz_image, since 1.6 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_SCRIPT The surface is of type script, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_QT The surface is of type Qt, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_RECORDING The surface is of type recording, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_VG The surface is a OpenVG surface, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_GL The surface is of type OpenGL, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_DRM The surface is of type Direct Render Manager, since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_TEE The surface is of type 'tee' (a multiplexing surface), since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_XML The surface is of type XML (for debugging), since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_SKIA CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_SUBSURFACE The surface is a subsurface created with cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle(), since 1.10 CAIRO_SURFACE_TYPE_COGL This surface is of type Cogl, since 1.12 Since: 1.2 cairo_t, cairo_pattern_t