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
