Re: Zooming the canvas messes up text

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna eclipse co uk>]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 19:38 -0700, Aditya Rajgarhia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed, both in my application as well as in the demos 
> distributed with GooCanvas, that zooming the canvas using set_scale() 
> can cause issues with any text on the canvas.
> 
> As the canvas is zoomed increasingly, some of the letters within a text 
> widget do not scale properly, and begin to overlap with each other. You 
> can see this in the examples/text demo application (by scaling the text 
> a few times), or in the following screenshot from my application: 
> http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/300/badtext.png
> 
> Has anyone come across this issue before? Unless I'm doing something 
> wrong, this is quite a bug.

I have noticed similar things before. I'd guess it is a Pango bug, as
GooCanvas doesn't have much to do with the layout of the letters in the
text.

It would be useful to try to reproduce it in a simple GTK+ app, and also
check if it is a known bug.

Damon