Re: XML file format - Linux vs Windows

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> 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.

It's not a question of saving the bounding boxes.  The problem is that the
size of the text determines the size of the surrounding box.  If the text
doesn't scale linearly, the size of the box is indeterminate.

-Lars

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