[cairo] Text output under angle - uneven text

cu cairouser at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 2 05:54:20 PST 2010


That's what I was thinking of doing - but didn't consider aliasing and
need to scale, thanks for the tip!
This is in a somewhat time critical path though, so I have to test to
see if loss of performance would not outweigh the "weirdness" of current
display.

-M

Jonathan Morton wrote:
> Another technique is to render the text straight and level, and then
> rotate the resulting image.  The image should be slightly larger than
> the result (up to 2x) to avoid aliasing, but there's no benefit to going
> crazy.  If you plan on animating, that might be the best answer.
>
>   



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