[cairo] rendering UTF8 text

[Ulrich Mierendorff]

Thank you for information about that. Now, that I have seen all the 
benefits of cairo-pango, I will use it.
However, I have one question left. If I render a complicated pango 
layout with much text how can I determine the size for the cairo 
rendering context before actually rendering it, because I must create 
the surface before ("cairo_image_surface_create(..,SIZEX,SIZEY);") 
rendering. I think it will be impossible? So how to do? Rendering twice? 
Maybe one fast pass without AA enabled to determine the size and a 
second one with quality enabled?
I do not know if this is cairo or pango dependent...

Regards,
Ulrich

Behdad Esfahbod schrieb:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:32 -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
>   
>>         http://people.freedesktop.org/~cworth/utf8test-pango.c
>>
>> (Although, the last time I shared that with somebody, Behdad pointed
>> out a couple of style issues with it, and I haven't fixed them. I plan
>> to resurrect the cairo wiki this week and we can start hosting
>> examples there for people to collaborate on improving them.)
>>     
>
> Here it goes for the record:
>
>   /* cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs pangocairo libpng12` utf8test-pango.c -o utf8test-pango */
>
> Instead of hardcoding libpng12, you can use cairo-png.
>
>
>     if (width || height)
> 	pango_layout_get_size (layout, &pango_width, &pango_height);
>
>     if (width)
> 	*width = (double) pango_width / PANGO_SCALE;
>
>     if (height)
> 	*height = (double) pango_height / PANGO_SCALE;
>
> You can use pango_layout_get_pixel_size() to avoid the divisions.  It
> will return rounded integers though, but that's what you need most of
> the time.
>
>     cairo_translate (cr, 10, 30 - height);
>     pango_cairo_show_layout(cr, layout);
>
> This will position the bottom-left of the layout at 10,30.  I guess what
> you want however is to have the baseline-left at that position.  To do
> that, use:
>
>   cairo_move_to (cr, 10, 30);
>   pango_cairo_show_layout_line (cr, pango_layout_get_line (layout, 0));
>
> You notice I used cairo_move_to() instead of cairo_translate().  The
> reason is that pango renders the layout at the current point of the
> cairo context.  Now normally the current point is invariant the context
> matrix, which means, if the cairo context had a current point, the
> cairo_translate() doesn't move the place the layout is rendered.  But,
> if the context has no current point, cairo returns (0,0) as current
> point, and since that (0,0) is interpreted in user space, a
> cairo_translate() on a context with no current point moves the place of
> the rendered layout.  Yuck!
>
>