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<p>Create a new size object from a given face object.</p><h4>input</h4><table class="fields"><tr><td class="val" id="face">face</td><td class="desc"><p>A handle to a parent face object.</p></td></tr></table>
<h4>output</h4><table class="fields"><tr><td class="val" id="asize">asize</td><td class="desc"><p>A handle to a new size object.</p></td></tr></table>
<h4>return</h4>
<p>FreeType error code. 0&nbsp;means success.</p><h4>note</h4>
<p>You need to call <code><a href="ft2-sizes_management.html#ft_activate_size">FT_Activate_Size</a></code> in order to select the new size for upcoming calls to <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_set_pixel_sizes">FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes</a></code>, <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_set_char_size">FT_Set_Char_Size</a></code>, <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_load_glyph">FT_Load_Glyph</a></code>, <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_load_char">FT_Load_Char</a></code>, etc.</p><hr>
<h2 id="ft_done_size">FT_Done_Size<a class="headerlink" href="#ft_done_size" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2><p>Defined in FT_SIZES_H (freetype/ftsizes.h).</p><div class = "codehilite"><pre><code>  FT_EXPORT( <a href="ft2-basic_types.html#ft_error">FT_Error</a> )  <b>FT_Done_Size</b>( <a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_size">FT_Size</a>  size );</code></pre></div>
<p>Discard a given size object. Note that <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_done_face">FT_Done_Face</a></code> automatically discards all size objects allocated with <code><a href="ft2-sizes_management.html#ft_new_size">FT_New_Size</a></code>.</p><h4>input</h4><table class="fields"><tr><td class="val" id="size">size</td><td class="desc"><p>A handle to a target size object.</p></td></tr></table>
<h4>return</h4>
<p>FreeType error code. 0&nbsp;means success.</p><hr>
<h2 id="ft_activate_size">FT_Activate_Size<a class="headerlink" href="#ft_activate_size" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h2><p>Defined in FT_SIZES_H (freetype/ftsizes.h).</p><div class = "codehilite"><pre><code>  FT_EXPORT( <a href="ft2-basic_types.html#ft_error">FT_Error</a> )  <b>FT_Activate_Size</b>( <a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_size">FT_Size</a>  size );</code></pre></div>
<p>Even though it is possible to create several size objects for a given face (see <code><a href="ft2-sizes_management.html#ft_new_size">FT_New_Size</a></code> for details), functions like <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_load_glyph">FT_Load_Glyph</a></code> or <code><a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_load_char">FT_Load_Char</a></code> only use the one that has been activated last to determine the &lsquo;current character pixel size&rsquo;.</p><p>This function can be used to &lsquo;activate&rsquo; a previously created size object.</p><h4>input</h4><table class="fields"><tr><td class="val" id="size">size</td><td class="desc"><p>A handle to a target size object.</p></td></tr></table>
<h4>return</h4>
<p>FreeType error code. 0&nbsp;means success.</p><h4>note</h4>
<p>If <code>face</code> is the size's parent face object, this function changes the value of <code>face-&gt;size</code> to the input size handle.</p><hr>                                                            

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