Re: GnomeCanvasText behavioural change

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 10:24, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> > This semantic difference makes it very hard to fix the item, and I would 
> > like to change the AA mode version back to work as it did in 1.4. This 
> > will remove the (ugly) scaled text feature though, so I guess it is an API
> > change that has to be agreed to.
> 
> I'll never understand why one would want to scale text by rendering it
> into a bitmap and scaling that.
> What should be done is rendering it anti-aliased, at a _very large_ size, 
> into a greyscale pixbuf, and then translating that. Or maybe render the
> text with size = requested_size * zoom_factor

I could be wrong, but it would seem to make sense to include
David Turner (the FreeType maintainer) and Kieth Packard (the
Render extension developer at XFree86.org) in discussions of
font rendering.

	Miles