Re: Bordered Text in Pango

[Alex Kerr <alexkerr usa net>]

There's a great little tutorial on that here: 
http://x11.gp2x.de/personal/google/
see the last section (Cairo Tricks) and example at the bottom
You'll want the Cairo manual for the API details, here: 
http://www.cairographics.org/manual/index.html
You can search in your browser page for the specific function you're 
interested on the index page (as there's no search function on the 
site): http://www.cairographics.org/manual/index-all.html
E.g. to get cairo_stroke_preserve() 
http://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-cairo-t.html#cairo-stroke-preserve

Hope this helps.

Alex

On 03/07/2013 13:00, gtk-i18n-list-request gnome org wrote:
> On 13-06-14 06:00 AM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> >   Hello,
> >
> >   
> >
> > I have a requirement to implement bordered text in Pango.
> >
> > I also need the flexibility of being able to change the thickness of the
> > bordered text.
> >
> > What do you think would be the right approach ?
> >
> >   
> >
> > According to me the only way out is to use FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden or a related
> > variant while laying out the text. That will ensure correct itemization and
> > line-break.
> >
> > Once that is done, I can render the text using 2 colors, one for the text ,
> > another for border.  But, I am not sure how to do that inside
> > pango_ft2_render_layout_line. Can you tell me how this can be done?
> This can't really be done directly with Pango.  How about getting the text
> path from pangocairo and stroking it?
>
>
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > Parth Kanungo