[cairo] scaled fonts in X11

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:05 AM Johann Lermer <johann.lermer at elvin.eu>
wrote:

> On Mon, 11 May 2020 10:07:55 -0400
> "James K. Lowden" <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote:
>
> > Given the choice between setting a font size to, say, 12 points, and
> > scaling the cairo_t and font to a readable size, or just asking for 16
> > points, is there any theoretical advantage either way?
>
>
> a 12 point font which ist scaled by 1,33 is different from a 16 point
> font.
> The reason is,that smaller fonts have usually different dimensions to make
> them easier to read. And honestly, Cairo does not very well in scaling
> fonts.
> There seems to be a bug with scaled fonts, CTM and the cairo context,
> whenyou
> use X11 as target surface:
> when you set a scaled font to 12, the CTM to a scale of e.g.
> 1,33 and then you save the context and restore it, the font's scale is
> at 16 and the CTM's scale at 1. Next time you write on the screen, the
> font has different character sizes.
>

This doesn't make sense to me.


> When you use the toy api, the CTM's scale is always 1. Which is
> usually wrong, in my opinion, but at least the character sizes do not
> change.
>

This neither.


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