[cairo] Text output under angle - uneven text

cu cairouser at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 2 05:14:01 PST 2010


Thanks, that explains it. I have seen this issue mentioned on the list,
but never considered what it means to the output, until I tried it.

Is the subpixel positioning for text something that is in plans for a
future version? Soon/not soon/never?

-Mike

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 02/01/2010 10:29 PM, cu wrote:
>   
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> What you are seeing is the fact that cairo does not support subpixel text
> positioning yet.  You may have more luck with cairo_text_path();cairo_fill(),
> but that's drastically slower.
>
> behdad
>
>   
>> -Mike
>>     



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