On Wed, 15 May 2002, Robert Young wrote: >> Lars Clausen wrote: >> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Robert Young wrote: >> > Just a quick problem I found. Place a piece of text on a >> diagram. Change >> > it's font. Move it about - it's bounds are not correct. >> > Compiled with no options i.e. Freetype OFF. >> >> What fonts are you changing from and to, at what size and zoom? > > New Diagram. New Text. At this point it is using Courier, size 0.8, and > 100% zoom. Change font to AvantGarde-Book and when the text is moved > about it leaves stuff behind - hence me thinking its a bounding box > problem. The bounding box, however, is OK at 141% and 200% zoom...
Yeah, that sounds like what I see. >> I am tempted to for all small sizes just render a larger size and then >> scale in Dia, no matter the uglyness. For now, there is a >> wiggle factor of >> 1.1, which leaves some extra room in some cases. We may need >> to increase >> it a bit. > > I took a look at lib/font.c and see what you mean. I did, however, notice > that the problem is only with this particular font face that it occurs. > Mind you, that is just for size 0.8, zoom 100%. Also, there was a message > appearing in the console when using AvantGarde-Book about this font > (-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal ...) not supporting all characters in > my locale (en_AU) - then complains that it is missing character set > ISO8859-1. I'd probably blame it on this. Your fudge factor of 1.1 works > pretty well (>90% of the time). Maybe it should be 1.15 or 1.2 to cover everything. > I guess the next question is : what needs to be done to get Freetype > working well enough to replace GDK fonts?? Or is Freetype justa stepping > stone to Pango? Should I spend my lunch time playing with Freetype > enabled, instead? Freetype, alas, has the same problem, both with and without hinting. It is just a stepping stone, really. But I don't know if Pango does it any better. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
