Re: gEDA-user: font problem in 1.6.0

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

You have my sympathy!

Working more serious on an other CAD application (Varkon), we now
face the question whether or not to move to GTK+ (or other).
I personally wrote a demo using FLTK (1.1.x) after 14 fulltime-days of
widget library evaluation. (I found GTK to be a complicated tangled slow...)
Maybe I should cross-post this to my Varkon mates ;-)

As former strong supporter of premade widget libraries with all the major
projects going cairo (isn't this close to Babel?), I even thought about
refurbishing the old internal widget system with some cheap but cool looking
bit-blit based buttons. BTW, cairo is claimed to oh so hardware accelerated,
but OpenGL is missing - what is accelerated then?

Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Six dependencies later, I've now hit a dead end trying to figure out 
> how to install DocBook.  (as if I really even wanted the damn GTK 
> documentation)
>
>   All this is worth it, right?  I'm sure it's gorgeous, but we seem to 
> have thrown portability right out the window here.  OSX/PPC v10.4, 
> OSX/x86 v10.6, and Solaris 10 are all dead in the water here.
>
>   (I hate to dump this on you, I'm sitting here in an 94degF house 
> with a really bad air conditioner failure)
>
>             -Dave
>
> On May 11, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > Can you try git HEAD pango as well please.. there is a tantalising
> > sounding commit which has not made any release yet:
> >
> >     [cairo] Scale font metrics to user space
> >
> >     Bug 457990 - font metrics are not converted to user space in 
> > cairo backend
> >
> >
> > Of course.. it is working on Linux (and OS X when build in a particular
> > way), so this would only be useful if this bug happens to be affecting
> > the OS-X native back-end (assuming that is what you're building for).
> >
> > Are you building with Quartz / ATSUI or freetype font rendering (as you
> > would get on Linux)? (Pango and Cairo need to match in this regard).
> >
> > Are you building to run on the X11 server in OS X?
> >
> > Try building pango with --with-x
> >
> > (I think cairo needs to be build compatibly first)
> >
> > --enable-xlib=yes --enable-xlib-xrender=yes --enable-quartz=no
> > --enable-quartz-font=no --enable-quartz-image=no --enable-ft=yes
> > --enable-fc=yes
> >
> > (This ought to get you building a X11 "like" cairo).
> >
> > I'd be really curious if you can get something working, if you could
> > also nail down what causes it to break again.
> >
> >
> > Btw.. I don't think you need to rebuild GTK each time, but I might be
> > wrong. Give it a try without first if you can.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Peter C.
> >
> >
> > >              -Dave
> >
> > --
> > Peter Clifton
> >
> > Electrical Engineering Division,
> > Engineering Department,
> > University of Cambridge,
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> > Cambridge
> > CB3 0FA
> >
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> > Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me)
> >
> >
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