[cairo] Hinting can't be switched off for win32?

[Stuart Parmenter]

Most font options are ignored by the windows font backend.  Not really
sure how you would even implement those in terms of windows APIs

stuart

On 3/21/06, Mikael Claesson <miclaes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to disable font hinting in my win32
> application, but it doesn't seem to be working. I've
> tried it with the win32 backend and with the image
> buffer backend. This is the code I use:
>
> fo = cairo_font_options_create();
>
> if( cairo_font_options_status( fo ) ==
>     CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS )
> {
>     cairo_font_options_set_hint_style( fo,
>         CAIRO_HINT_STYLE_NONE );
>
>     cairo_font_options_set_hint_metrics( fo,
>         CAIRO_HINT_METRICS_OFF );
>
>     cairo_set_font_options( cr, fo );
>
>     cairo_font_options_destroy( fo );
> }
>
> I use a font which I get through
> cairo_win32_font_face_create_for_logfontw(), and I
> write text using cairo_show_text().
>
> I do believe the font options are applied because I
> can disable antialiasing by adding the appropriate
> line above. Does anyone have any idea of how I can
> turn of hinting aswell?
>
> Kind regards
>
> /M
>
>
>
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