Re: Pango, set height in pixels

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Alex Larsson wrote:

> On 13 Jan 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Dennis Bjorklund <db zigo dhs org> writes: 
> > > The doc of pango_font_description_set_size () says
> > > 
> > > size : the size for the font description in pango units. (PANGO_SCALE 
> > > pango units equals one point)
> > 
> > PANGO_SCALE pango units equals one "device unit" which for the screen
> > is pixels and for printed output would probably be points. The docs
> > there are broken, yeah. I'll fix them.
> 
> No. This is wrong. All Pango units are in points, but scaled by 
> PANGO_SCALE (1024) in order to support fractional values in an integer 
> type.
> 
> There is no way to specify the pixel size of a font in pango.

Uhm. Replying to myself here. This is not entierly correct.

Specifying *font sizes* in Pango is always in points*1024, but units you 
get from pango_layout_get_extents() and other extents measurements are in 
device units*1024 (pixels for the screen).

/ Alex