Re: New print profiling functionality

[Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn pcode nl>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On 23 February 2010 17:51, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
>> Ahh, I'm just blitting it to the cairo surface, without preserving
>> aspect. I guess we need to do that. I'm using
>> gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_scale() which is probably a bad plan.
>
> I've done the scaling in cairo now; see below.
>
>>> * The generated image is pretty low resolution, the text looks like
>>> crap, consider (printtarg -T 200 or 300)?
>>
>> Hmm, it should already be using 300DPI thanks to the -t300 option.
>
> I've just pushed a commit to do the scaling in cairo, rather than GDK,
> which makes it look much better.

Actually, since you're using cairo, which is very vector-aware, right?
Wouldn't it make sense to use the EPS output (printtarg -e).

Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn