drawing - Cairo test if text overlaps -

Using Cairo, I'm keeping some text in random situations, and I have to know whether they are already ready Overlap the arbitrary shapes that occur. I could clip the path of the previous diagrams, and if there is a clipping, it means that there is overlap. However, there is no work to tell Cairo that clipping or not.

Do I have no way to fulfill it easily? I think I just basically want to see if two shapes should be detected or not.

To get the quality you want, you get to cairo_stroke_extents , Can work on cairo_fill_extents and cairo_text_extents and border boxes.

A better method to calculate only the text box of text and check the four corners against cairo_in_fill or cairo_in_stroke against the final code. The maximum error will be the distance from a single glyph to its bounding box, but perhaps it is enough for your purpose.

The last option is to level the text and check any point the previous step.