For what I was doing, I actually want the text to warp, so that's all to the good. The remaining challenge is warping text along b-splines or beziers.  You'll note that in the warpedtext.py example, the paths that the text is warped along are simple little curves - a spiral and a circle.  I want to warp text along a spline, and so need to parametrize it by arclength, which is not completely trivial, and generate a normal to the spline.  I've found a couple useful references in this regard, but if anyone knows of some existing code that plays nice with cairo already, it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Kevin <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Dirk Schönberger <<a href="mailto:dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de">dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> > Pycairo comes with the example examples/warpedtext.py which draws text > along a path. > </div>The example looks interesting. The only problem I see is that this method warps the actual glyphs. In a pure text on path I think the glyphs should be only rotated, transformed or scaled, while the actual "point data" (outlines) are not changed. Regards Dirk _______________________________________________ cairo mailing list <a href="mailto:cairo@cairographics.org">cairo@cairographics.org</a> <a href="http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo" target="_blank">http://lists.cairographics.org/mailman/listinfo/cairo</a> </blockquote></div>