Re: Eeek! My fonts have the shrinks!

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:30, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 18:37, Lars Clausen wrote:
> >> Strangely, starting from Pango 1.2.4, Pango seems to render fonts in Dia
> >> very, very small.  The default size (~11000 Pango units) is a single
> >> pixel.  Setting a big font and zooming in, I get to 27 pixels high when
> >> using 1146879 Pango units for the font height.  I'm using
> >> pango_ft2_render_layout() for rendering, but I doubt that's to blame,
> >> since pango_layout_get_pixel_size() agrees with the size given above.
> >> The size is set with pango_font_description_set_size().  I'm mighty
> >> confused and unhappy to have this turn up just before releasing a new
> >> version.  Any clues or pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> > Nothing has intentionally changed. We've had another report of a problem
> > (in the opposite direction ... fonts were too big) so maybe there is
> > something going wrong in the code to handle DPI. I'd certainly like
> > a test case.
> >
> > The main 1.2.3 => 1.2.4 change that seems relevant here is:
> >
> > Fri Aug  8 12:59:42 2003  Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> >
> > * pango/pangoft2-fontmap.c (pango_ft2_font_map_default_substitute):
> > Move DPI substitution before FcDefaultSubstitute so
> > it actually works.
> >
> > So, possibly the problem is that you were simply relying on fontconfig's
> > default DPI value before and not setting it correctly yourself. 
> >
> > Hmm, are you using
> > pango_ft2_font_map_new()/pango_ft2_font_map_create_context()
> > the old pango_ft2_get_context()?
> 
> I'm indeed using the old pango_ft2_get_context().  

What value are you passing for the DPI to that?

Thanks,
							Owen