[cairo] render text along path

Dirk Schönberger dirk.schoenberger at sz-online.de
Tue Nov 25 00:34:32 PST 2008


> Pycairo comes with the example examples/warpedtext.py which draws text
> along a path.
>

The example looks interesting.
The only problem I see is that this method warps the actual glyphs.
In a pure text on path I think the glyphs should be only rotated,
transformed or scaled, while the actual "point data" (outlines) are not
changed.

Regards
Dirk



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