FontFace.reference

Increases the reference count on font_face by one. This prevents font_face from being destroyed until a matching call to FontFace.destroy is made. The number of references to a cairo_font_face_t can be get using FontFace.getReferenceCount. Since 1.0

class FontFace
reference
()

Return Value

Type: FontFace

the referenced cairo_font_face_t.