72.0 inch)</td>
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<td><p><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Returns</em></span> :</span></p></td>
<td>a pointer to the newly created surface. The caller
owns the surface and should call <a class="link" href="cairo-cairo-surface-t.html#cairo-surface-destroy" title="cairo_surface_destroy ()"><code class="function">cairo_surface_destroy()</code></a> when done
with it.
This function always returns a valid pointer, but it will return a
pointer to a "nil" surface if an error such as out of me