psSurfaceCreate

fncairo.surface.Surface psSurfaceCreate(string filename, double widthInPoints, double heightInPoints)

Creates a PostScript surface of the specified size in points to be written to filename. See cairo.global.psSurfaceCreateForStream for a more flexible mechanism for handling the PostScript output than simply writing it to a named file.

Note that the size of individual pages of the PostScript output can vary. See cairo.global.psSurfaceSetSize.

Parameters

filenamea filename for the PS output (must be writable), null may be used to specify no output. This will generate a PS surface that may be queried and used as a source, without generating a temporary file.
widthInPointswidth of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)
heightInPointsheight of the surface, in points (1 point == 1/72.0 inch)

Returns

a pointer to the newly created surface. The caller

owns the surface and should call cairo.surface.Surface.destroy when done with it.

This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of memory occurs. You can use cairo.surface.Surface.status to check for this.