[cairo] rendering UTF8 text

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:32 -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> 
> 
>         http://people.freedesktop.org/~cworth/utf8test-pango.c
> 
> (Although, the last time I shared that with somebody, Behdad pointed
> out a couple of style issues with it, and I haven't fixed them. I plan
> to resurrect the cairo wiki this week and we can start hosting
> examples there for people to collaborate on improving them.)

Here it goes for the record:

  /* cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs pangocairo libpng12` utf8test-pango.c -o utf8test-pango */

Instead of hardcoding libpng12, you can use cairo-png.


    if (width || height)
	pango_layout_get_size (layout, &pango_width, &pango_height);

    if (width)
	*width = (double) pango_width / PANGO_SCALE;

    if (height)
	*height = (double) pango_height / PANGO_SCALE;

You can use pango_layout_get_pixel_size() to avoid the divisions.  It
will return rounded integers though, but that's what you need most of
the time.

    cairo_translate (cr, 10, 30 - height);
    pango_cairo_show_layout(cr, layout);

This will position the bottom-left of the layout at 10,30.  I guess what
you want however is to have the baseline-left at that position.  To do
that, use:

  cairo_move_to (cr, 10, 30);
  pango_cairo_show_layout_line (cr, pango_layout_get_line (layout, 0));

You notice I used cairo_move_to() instead of cairo_translate().  The
reason is that pango renders the layout at the current point of the
cairo context.  Now normally the current point is invariant the context
matrix, which means, if the cairo context had a current point, the
cairo_translate() doesn't move the place the layout is rendered.  But,
if the context has no current point, cairo returns (0,0) as current
point, and since that (0,0) is interpreted in user space, a
cairo_translate() on a context with no current point moves the place of
the rendered layout.  Yuck!

-- 
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