Re: printing gtktextview and text layout

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 17:30 +0200, Philippe Rouquier wrote:
> Le mardi 15 avril 2008 Ã 15:05 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a Ãcrit : 
> > On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 11:08 +0200, Philippe Rouquier wrote:
> > > Could someone help me with that please?
> >
> > Just reorder your code to use pango_cairo_show_layout() for both display
> > and print, then make sure you set font options on your PangoContext
> > attached to the layout using pango_cairo_context_set_font_options() to
> > turn metrics hinting off (cairo_font_options_set_hint_metrics()).
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> I tried and indeed it works: I used a pangolayout (with hinting turned
> off) for display in a widget to reflect what was written in the
> GtkTextView. I noticed the same discrepancies of text layout as when I
> printed. I then printed and the results matched the on screen
> pangolayout.
>
> Now the problem is I want to use and print the GtkTextView. How do I
> turn off hinting in a GtkTextView?
> But maybe I didn't understand you well?

You understood me correctly.  I don't have answers to the rest of your
questions.

> Thanks again.
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