Re: XML file format - Linux vs Windows

[tino schwarze informatik tu-chemnitz de (Tino Schwarze)]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:07:54PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> > > And the different fonts and resulting bounding box size mismatches
> > > aren't producing irrelevant changes ?
> >
> > I don't want to talk about fonts... :-<   (Courier seems to work ok :-/)
> >
> > As for the bounding boxes - I had noticed they changed a lot, and presumed
> > they must be tied to screen resolution or something...  Getting them the
> > same would be great...
>
> They are a lot influenced by the screen resolution and the font renderer's
> idea of the rendered width of a given string. There is little we can do
> here.

Why do bounding boxes get saved at all? To me it looks like they should
be computed after loading the file.

Bye, Tino.

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