### Method

# Pango Layout write_to_file

since: 1.50

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    pango_layout_write_to_file (
      PangoLayout* layout,
      PangoLayoutSerializeFlags flags,
      const char* filename,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

A convenience method to serialize a layout to a file.

It is equivalent to calling `pango_layout_serialize()` followed by `g_file_set_contents()`.

See those two functions for details on the arguments.

It is mostly intended for use inside a debugger to quickly dump a layout to a file for later inspection.

Available since: 1.50

#### Parameters

`flags`

  Type: `PangoLayoutSerializeFlags`

  `PangoLayoutSerializeFlags`.

`filename`

  Type: `const char*`

  The file to save it to.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the method if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if saving was successful.