[cairo] scale with text

[Damon Chaplin]

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 14:01 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:03:47 +0100, Tobias Ceglarek wrote:
> > How can I zoom the cairo surface with all its elements (text, paths, ..)
> > keeping the ratios of sizes?


> 3. Stop using the toy API (use cairo_show_glyphs instead of cairo_show_text)
> 
>    If you really want to enforce constraints on the positioning of
>    your glyphs, then you really don't want to be using cairo_show_text
>    anyway. Instead, you can use cairo_show_glyphs to individually
>    position each glyph.
> 
>    It's a fair amount of extra work to use cairo_show_glyphs instead,
>    (you have to do your own mapping from characters to font glyph IDs,
>    for example), so it's often wise to adopt a library such as pango
>    that does those tasks for you.


Unfortunately Pango still seems to have bugs in this area.

I've attached a test program that results in different layouts at
different zoom settings for me.

I'd really like to get this fixed, so if anyone has any ideas let me
know.

Damon

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