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Cloning

As stated before, fz_text objects are referenced counted. Changes or manipulations cannot safely be carried out on an object which might be shared with someone else, so we provide a mechanism to clone an object. Once cloned an object is guaranteed to be safe to modify.


\begin{lstlisting} /* fz_clone_text: Clone a text object. \par text: The text o... .../ fz_text *fz_clone_text(fz_context *ctx, const fz_text *text); \end{lstlisting}