Re: Printing

[Bastiaan Veelo <bastiaan sarc nl>]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:56:05 +0100, Bastiaan Veelo <bastiaan sarc nl>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   
> > 1) In order to get approximately correctly scaled text I had to specify 
> > a resolution of around 27.2 on the pango context. This value was 
> > determined by trial and error. I suspect I am doing something 
> > fundamentally wrong, and I would like to know how to render text the way 
> > the font designer inteded it. I have tried scaling only graphics and not 
> > text, but even then text was much too big.
> >
> > 2) The printed font seems a little heavy. This may be due to the scaling 
> > issue above.
> >     
> regarding the font issues in general: did you ever try to use Pango for
> the fonts instead of Cairo?
>   

Yes, my issues are with pango. The posted code also prints a cairo line 
of text, for reference, but I prefer using a pango layout.

> In my app I'm using a PangoContext to place text into the page, but
> this also causes problems, at least on Windows.
>   

What kind of problems? Like I have described or others?

Regards,
Bastiaan.