[cairo] Problem with text rendering on Win32+ClearType, and possible fix

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Oct 5 08:06:27 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 09:08 -0400, Timothée Lecomte wrote:
> Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Owen Taylor writes:
> >
> >  > but the number of users in a position to contribute is definitely
> >  > small,
> >
> > That's true. I don't think we even have any bug report in (GNOME)
> > bugzilla about the rendering issue that started this thread ... but
> > then I guess it might not be visible enough for people to consider it
> > a bug worth reporting.
> >
> > --tml
> >   
> For your information, I have seen that bug since it exists for my 
> gnuplot backend based on cairo, but Windows isn't my development 
> platform at all, and I first thought my eyes were too tired ;)
> 
> I'm patiently waiting for the next binaries with the fix, either from 
> the next version or from a patched 1.2.4 (I could build cairo by myself 
> though, it's not that hard once you have mingw installed).

If someone (Tor?) sends a patch for 1.2.4, I'll include it in the
upcoming 1.2.6 release.

behdad


> Best regards,
> 
> Timothée
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