On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:51 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: > And, out of curiosity, what's wrong with cairo's text rendering for > the OLPC machine?
I would guess that Cairo's text rendering has basically no international support or shaping, and is likely just for simple english strings and/or debugging. International text rendering is what Pango does quite well. Dan > On 11/6/06, Erik Blankinship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the warning about cairo's text rendering. > > Could you please send a reference to how to use pangocairo > with pycairo? I think that would be helpful for everyone on > this list who might use text in their application. > > Erik > > > On 11/6/06, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:27 -0500, Erik Blankinship > wrote: > > Hello > > > > If I want to use the system font in my cairo > context, where do I find > > the font file to load in? > > NEVER EVER use cairo's text rendering capabilities to > render any text. > Not in olpc at least. Use pangocairo ALL THE TIME. > > And for families, like others suggested, use > "sans-serif", "serif", and > "monospace". > > > > Thanks, > > Erik > > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
