[cairo] Font extents mysteries

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:45 -0400, Tim Teulings wrote:
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Is there an error in my code or am I
> basing by code on wrong assumptions? 

The reason you see this behavior is that you are measuring with a
default font options object, but rendering to a surface that indeed has
non-default options (in this case, metrics hinting on).  Instead you can
use what cairo_surface_get_font_options() returns.

But you really don't need to go that far (unless you are doing something
special).  All you need to do is to use cairo_text_extents() right after
cairo_select_font_face().  No need to deal with scaled fonts explicitly.

Hope it helps and you are having fun with cairo!

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