Hi Mathias, Thanks a lot for your help. > GdkFont is from a very old era, predating inovations like Xft, Pango or > cairo. Most propably you want to use > pango_cairo_show_layout_line() and friends. The problem is that I am working on a cairo-only GtkStyle interface, as far as I see GTK internally deals only with GdkFont like the following: if (state_type == GTK_STATE_INSENSITIVE) gdk_draw_string (window, gtk_style_get_font_internal (style), style->white_gc, x + 1, y + 1, string); To not be forced to make too many changes outside of the scope of my "project", it would be really great if I somehow could use the GdkFont from Cairo. Looking it up by its name every call is most likely quite slow :-/ Any ideas how the font-information could be transferred in good manner? Thank you in advance, lg Clemens _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list