[cairo] dimensionally accurate drawings on screen ?

[Axel Simon]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:57 -0800, Carl Worth wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:45:04 +0000, Axel Simon wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Cairo does not have a built-in, fixed DPI setting for fonts that I am
> aware.
> 
> A size passed to something like cairo_set_font_size is a size in
> user-space coordinates, so it is affected by the current
> transformation matrix (as set by things like cairo_scale).

Yes, sorry. I'm used Pango, and it's not easy to see where Pango ends
and Cairo begins. Pango has a font map that has a resolution of 96 dpi
per default (using e.g. pango_cairo_font_map_get_default ()).
Furthermore, you can override this factor by setting a non-zero
resolution in the cairo context, using
pango_cairo_context_set_resolution(). So this scaling factor still
applies between points and cairo units, a possible transformation matrix
is on top of that. That's how I understand it, anyway.

Axel.