<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi,</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I am new to cairo graphics. I am trying to draw a text letter by letter. I want to get a constant space between each letter in the text.</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">When I use the courier font which is fixed width font, it works fine. But in the case of Serif even if I add to the x co-ordinate the </div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">extents.width (<span class="yiv738774550Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; ">extents is </span><span class="yiv738774550Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; ">of type </span><span class="yiv738774550Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px; ">cairo_text_extents_t )</span> and constant to get the uniform spacing, the spacing is non uniform. </div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Sometimes there is overlap and sometimes there is too much of space. Could you please suggest a solution to solve this problem?</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Is there any option in cairo by which when I give the text I can also specify the spacing between each letter in the text?</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">I really appreciate the time and help of people in the cairo community</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Thanks,</div><div style="font-family: times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Anu</div></div></div></body></html>