On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 23:07, Haran Shivanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems understanding how font scaling works in Pango.
> I have a box into which I'm rendering a PangoLayout object.
> When I double the size of the box, I need the font to be scaled by both
> height and width accordingly.
>
> At first I naively tried just pango_font_description_set_size(...) with a
> size twice as large but this doesn't work.
Doesn't work how? It should be "approximately" twice as large, with
a bit of fuzz from hinting to integer pixel sizes. Unless you
are using bitmap fonts.
> If I understand correctly,
> (shape of a font at size X)*2 != (shape of font at size 2X)
> Is this correct?
> How can I get what I want?
> I essentially need to "zoom in" to the layout.
If you want linear scaling, you need to turn off hinting -- which
requires using a separate font map. Unfortunately, that does require
using the FT2 backend, since there is only one fontmap per screen
for Xft.
For FT2, turning off hinting looks like:
===
/* This function gets called to convert a matched pattern into what
* we'll use to actually load the font. We turn off hinting since we
* want metrics that are independent of scale.
*/
static void
substitute_func (FcPattern *pattern, gpointer data)
{
FcPatternDel (pattern, FC_HINTING);
FcPatternAddBool (pattern, FC_HINTING, FALSE);
}
pango_ft2_font_map_set_default_substitute (ft2fontmap,
substitute_func,
NULL, NULL);
===
Regards,
Owen
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