Re: GnomeCanvasText behavioural change

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, 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
> 

Well, the very large size would also make it exteremely unscalable for
anything but small amounts of text and even so always re-rendering would
probably be cheaper.

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