From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 08:46:27 EDT
Currently we assume a square pixel and use same resolution for
both x and y axes. Should we change this? (FreeType uses two
separate resolutions.)
Also, there is a potential problem with zoom. If I understand it
correctly, when we zoom text, we simply request a proportionally
bigger font from the system. Unfortunately, IIRC, the width of
glyphs does not necesarily scale linearly with height, but rather
often the ratio is adjusted (by the font designer) to look best at
different sizes. I have observed on windows that the difference
between the ratios at different point sizes can be quite dramatic,
resulting in non-wysiwig behaviour. One way to get around this
would be to change the resolution and keep the same point size of
the font when we request it from the system; I think with FreeType
this would be fairly straight forward.
Tomas
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