Re: Stretching a text to a certain width of height

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 12/11/2009 08:20 AM, Damien Boucard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to give an arbitrary width or
> height and automatically compute the correct font size which fits to the
> given constraint.
>
> Presently, I increment the font size iteratively until the text width is
> over the wanted width. But this workaround is very slow and unusable
> when I do it on many text items. I guess there is a cleaner method to do
> this...

Using pangocairo, turn metrics-hinting off, then do the layout at a nominal 
size, take the extents, do a cairo_scale(), and draw again.  Has worked fine 
for me.

behdad


> Thank you for your help,
>
> Damien.