Re: Font size and screen resolution

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jason Maiorana wrote:

> > I seems I am officially in charge of font handling now, due to trying
> to
> > hack up FreeType support:)  I'm trying to get away from the frankly
> > horribly hard-coded font list in there now, but I'm having trouble with
> the
> > ctual rendering for FreeType.  I'm guessing the trouble you see lies in
> > suck_font, yes?  I shall have to investigate what FreeType does at
> > differing resolutions.
>
>
> Out of curiousity, could you go into a little detail about the difficulty
> you are having with freetype.

Absolutely!  Any help is welcome:)

All the fun is in lib/font.c, inside #ifdef HAVE_FREETYPE.  In
freetype_load_string(), I manage to find the size of the string, and that
seems ok.  In freetype_render_string(), I have FreeType render into its
bitmaps, and then I call freetype_copy_glyph_bitmap() to copy that into the
Dia pixmap.  However, the actual copy operation (gdk_draw_gray_image())
bombs.  It's been a while since I've looked at it, I'm thinking there's a
disagreement on bitmap layouts between GDK and FreeType.  I'm also slightly
worried that the bitmap size I get from FT for a single glyph is 263786x50.

What's also odd is the difference between the height used for finding
bounding boxes etc, and that used when drawing -- the renderer uses
renderer->font_height, which is ddisplay_transform_length()ed, but
calc_width() seems to ignore the renderer and the transformation.

To see the problems, configure with --enable-freetype and try doing
anything with text in Dia.  #define LARS_TRACE_MESSAGES in lib/font.c to
see a trace of what happens.

-Lars

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