--- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:26 PM +0200 5/27/02, Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela > wrote: > >I'm not 100% sure Tomas, but I've always heard of > "hinting" like the > >"grid-fitting" process. > > In font terminology, hinting is the process of > applying the > "hints" that the author(s) of an outline font > included in the data > for use in creating better looking bitmaps at > smaller sizes. > > > >The non-scaling factor that you're speaking about > here is due to the > >changes that each glyph suffers when it goes from a > high size to a low > >size, even when you keep it at high resolution > (usually making the > >characters wider to make them more easily > readable). > > Right - which is why you should NEVER attempt to do > text > layout based on changes in font size. INSTEAD, you > change the > transformation matrix of the outline data to account > for the scaling > factor and then rerasterize the outline. That > gives you a PERFECTLY > SCALED result.
ok, I think that we're all in sync here > >I don't understand that. Why that will help us to > draw each character > >at the right position? > > Because you get linear scaling... That will give us the right metrics to place the characters, but if we draw using XftDrawString it will not use these metrics, but the default scapements. Tomas said: > I think if we do this then we will not need to > advance by characters to fix this (which I am pretty > certain would result in in a very poor drawing > performance). And that's what I don't understand. We got the right metrics to place each character, say 3.4 pixels of horizontal advance. We still have to draw using XftDrawCharSpec using our 3.4 pixels (rounding each character position to an integer value, but using decimal value to compute the pen position), instead of using XftDrawString that will use the default integer scapement. Am I missing something here? Cheers, ===== Joaquin Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
