Method

PangoLayoutserialize

Declaration [src]

GBytes*
pango_layout_serialize (
  PangoLayout* layout,
  PangoLayoutSerializeFlags flags
)

Description [src]

Serializes the layout for later deserialization via pango_layout_deserialize().

There are no guarantees about the format of the output across different versions of Pango and pango_layout_deserialize() will reject data that it cannot parse.

The intended use of this function is testing, benchmarking and debugging. The format is not meant as a permanent storage format.

Available since:

1.50

Parameters

`flags`	`PangoLayoutSerializeFlags`
	`PangoLayoutSerializeFlags`

Return value

Returns:	`GBytes`
	A `GBytes` containing the serialized form of `layout`.
	The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.