[cairo] Font size, how to make it very small?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:20 -0400, Dirk Schönberger wrote:
> > Umm, maybe we should add a note to that page.  It's correct to use those
> > numbers in those snippets as the normalize_snippet call is adding a huge
> > scale and as you see all coordinates are also < 1.0
> 
> Does this means that cairo scales the font size, instead of the curve
> outlines
> for the text?

Kinda.  Cairo cares about font_size * ctm (or rather, font_matrix * ctm
for the general case.)

> And what about non-equale scale value, i.e. your CTM is 200% vertical, but
> only 100% horizontal?

That results in stretched text, as expected.

> Fonts (or rather text extents for a given text and a given font) do scale
> nonlinear, which I think may lead to some nasty surprises in regards to
> WYSIWIG
> (render a text at 100% scale and at 200% and you get nonlinear run-lengths
> i.e. the text at 200% may less than double the width than the text at
> 100%)

You can turn metric hinting off to get a device-independent layout.

> Regards
> Dirk
> 
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