[cairo] cairo design

[Bill Spitzak]

On Friday 23 April 2004 01:46 pm, Keith Packard wrote:
> The default cairo transformation matrix sets the user coordinate space to
> approximately 100dpi.  For most displays, this ends up being an identity
> transformation, but higher resolution devices will end up using
> non-identity default transformations.

It actually picks the nearest integer transform to 1/96, right? If displays 
go higher resolution you will get a 2:1 transformation, but you will never 
get a non-integer one. This is quite a good idea, as it is approximately 
resolution-independent without messing up programs that assumme things about 
the pixel layout.

You can also directly set the transform so one unit is an actual dimension 
(1/72 inch?) and scale from there to any other actual dimension.

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