[cairo] Want to stretch my fonts

[Kayven Riese]

but that takes only cr as an argument.. so it is going to scale my entire
canvas right?  I need to learn to make my letters on a different canvas and
combine the two canvases or something, don't I?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Kayven Riese <kayvey at gmail.com> wrote:

> but that takes only cr as an argument.. so it is going to scale my entire
> canvas right?  I need to learn to make my letters on a different canvas and
> combine the two canvases or something, don't I?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Andrea Canciani <ranma42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Kayven Riese <kayvey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, I have attached four files (oops five--see below) so that if
>> somebody
>> > has a UNIX command line hopefully you just save them and do "make stub"
>> and
>> > you can run my code. For compatibility here is my CentOS uname:
>> > [root at localhost ~]# uname -a
>> > Linux localhost 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010
>> x86_64
>> > x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> > [root at localhost ~]#
>> >
>> > My goal is to create a "cellgam.png" but to have more control over the
>> > font.  I want to stretch it vertically.  In the example, I think I ran
>> the
>> > program with the command
>> >
>> > ./stub 2 2 3 3
>> >
>> > which means that 20% of the proteins are nuclear.  I want the word
>> "Nuclear"
>> > to have an extent that represents 20% of the vertical height of the
>> diagram,
>> > but I want it to still be contained in my "cell" the rounded rectangle I
>> > have drawn.  The rectangle is intended to have a vertical extent
>> propotional
>> > to the first three arguments.
>> >
>> > All that is a ball of wax I can handle.  The only thing I am asking is
>> how
>> > do I control what is happening to my text to transform it vertically
>> within
>> > a box that I chose.  I got the idea for what I am doing from the fifth
>> file
>> > I just attached, "bp_font.jpeg"  I want to be able to stretch the word
>> > "Nuclear" so it is taller, but control the width to be narrower to still
>> fit
>> > inside my cell.
>> You can't do that just by changing the font size. You should use
>> cairo_scale with
>> appropriate arguments (see
>> http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-transformations.html )
>> Hope this helps
>> Andrea
>>
>
>
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>                       MS  (Physiology and Biophysics)
>   (415) 902 5513 cellular
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  Kayven Riese, BSCS,
                      MS  (Physiology and Biophysics)
  (415) 902 5513 cellular
  http://kayve.net
  Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org
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