[cairo] dimensionally accurate drawings on screen ?

[Axel Simon]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:57 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
> This isn't a cairo problem, I'm sure, but I'm hoping that someone here will
> know how to solve it.
> 
> I'm trying to create dimensionally accurate drawings using cairo on a 
> GdkDrawable using
> 
> 	GdkDrawable *drawable;
> 	cairo_t *cr;
> 	drawable = gtk_drawing_area_new();
>         cr = gdk_cairo_create  (drawable);
> 
> 
> I can generate the drawings ok.  Its the dimensionally accurate part I'm having difficultly with.
> 
> I'd like to scale according to accurate xy resolution values.  With Xlib I know I can obtain the
> resolution with:
> 	resolution.x = DisplayWidth(dpy, scr) / DisplayWidthMM(dpy, scr);
> 	resolution.y = DisplayHeight(dpy, scr) / DisplayHeightMM(dpy, scr);
> 
> 
> but how can I get from "GdkDrawable *display"  to the "Display* dpy" and the "int scr" ?
> 

 gdk_screen_get_width_mm and  gdk_screen_get_width are your friends,
similarly for height. Note that

a) you need to specify this scaling factor for all text rendering, too,
since Gtk (and Cairo) have a built-in, fixed DPI setting for fonts.

b) what your monitor reports is often wrong, e.g. my 18" TFT reports the
size of its 17" predecessor.

Axel.