[cairo] Problem in dot matrix windows printer!!!

Pascal Germroth funkycoder at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 19:15:37 PST 2011


Hi,

> I got trouble in dot matrix printer which have different resolution
> between x and y. I use LX-300+II (120X72DPI).

> The text is printed unscaled width and height, but white space is scaled.
> So the text is printed crossing between chars.
> 
> I got his trouble when I use cairo_show_text, but after I change to :
> 
>     cairo_text_path (fcairo.context, pchar(stringtolatin1(str1)));
>     cairo_fill(fcairo.context);

So the printer uses its own unscaled bitmap font? (just takes the
positions for the glyphs, but renders the glyphs itself, ignoring the
transformation matrix)

-- 
Pascal Germroth


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