[cairo] Text scaling and hinting

[Carl Worth]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 18:06:24 +1200, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
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> [1.2  <text/html; WINDOWS-1252 (base64)>]

Robert,

Will you please not send the text portions of your email as
base64-encoded parts? And dropping the HTML version of the text
would help as well.

For the sake of anyone else running into similar barriers as I did in
trying to get at Robert's message, here's a link to the archived
version on the web that was successfully[*] decoded:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-May/003810.html

[*] surprisingly enough, since pipermail loses so badly on useful
things like attached patches.

And here's a cut-and-paste of the mail's text:

On Wed, 4 May 2005 18:06:24 +1200, Robert O'Callahan tried to get across:
> I'm currently working on having Mozilla draw text through the new Cairo font 
> APIs (the text in my blog screenshot was a hack based on Xft). The new Cairo 
> font APIs have all metrics depending on the current transformation matrix 
> because of hinting effects. That's fine, but we also need the ability to get 
> a cairo_scaled_font_t and render those exact outlines under other 
> transformation matrices.
> 
> One obvious use case is animated rotation/scaling of a multi-line text 
> object. If we allow the metrics to change during the animation, lines might 
> break in different places during the animation, which is probably not what 
> the author wants. Performance would also suffer because we'd have to run our 
> layout algorithm at each and every step of the animation. Alternatively, we 
> could just cross our fingers, hope that the metrics don't change much, and 
> don't rerun the layout algorithm --- but that will lead to glyphs 
> overlapping at the boundaries of text runs, and other ugliness.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Rob
> -- 
> ["Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed–not only in my
> presence, but now much more in my absence–continue to work out your
> salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will
> and to act according to his good purpose." Philippians 2:12-13.]
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