[cairo] Question about gstate transitions and scaled fonts

Martin Robinson mrobinson at igalia.com
Fri Nov 4 14:47:58 PDT 2011


On 11/04/2011 02:20 PM, Martin Robinson wrote:

> cairo_select_font_face(...);
> for (...) {
>     cairo_save(...);
>     cairo_show_text(...);
>     cairo_restore(...);
> }

After sending this note, I almost immediately realized this is only an
issue if you don't use cairo_set_scaled_font. Many clients, including
WebKit use cairo_set_scaled_font directly, so my previous observation
probably isn't a large problem at all. Sorry for the noise. :)

--Martin


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