From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 07:50:35 EDT
Hi Joaquin,
> I've been playing a bit with pango, using the windows native backend.
>
> First, make the whole thing compile and run was a pain. Maybe it's
> just me been a unix guy, but it took me several hours to get the whole
> thing running (and I was using precompiled packages for glib...)
If it is any consolation, I did not suceed at all.
> The windows native backend seems to be in a more or less functional
> state.
The FT2 backend should be in a better condition, since it is used in
GIMP and GnomeCanvas (so Owen tells me); I suspect the win32
backend is not used in anything.
> The only big problem that I've seen is that the size of the
> fonts was (*absolutely*) wrong. If you ask for a font size of 12,
> pango renders the font with a size of ~7.5 points.
>
> I've patched pango to fix this problem, so if you want to play with
> the windows backend apply the attached patch before you start the fun.
I am do not think the patch is correct either, according to the docs,
font sizes are meant to be given in 1/64th' of a point, so the
resolution should be something like:
PANGO_SCALE * 72 / (64 * device_dpi)
assuming it is used to map font sizes to pango units.
Tomas
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