On 30 June 2014 21:36, Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@web.de> wrote: > The real question was: > Why can't we draw a text with StrikeFont and with Athens. > > Igor, can't we use AthensCairoText (cairo toy text api) for non-truetype > fonts? > > Because strike fonts are stored in special format which you cannot render directly by cairo library. Because strike fonts are not scalable. Because it will be horribly slow. Choose one.
> > > > 2014-06-21 1:20 GMT+02:00 Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com>: > > Gi Igor, >> >> For DrGeo it is not a workable option to have different fonts in Morphic >> widget and Athens canvas (I explained earlier why). >> However I found the scaling trick of draw text to work reasonably well. >> Not full perfect as from time to time I can see some artifact. >> >> Thanks >> >> Hilaire >> >> >> >> >> Le 20/06/2014 15:32, Igor Stasenko a écrit : >> > Sure, you can do: make sure you don't render text with same font in >> > Morphic UI and Athens, so they don't interfere with each other. >> > There's no easy way to get rid of interference, because it would require >> > changing Freetype package and its plugin in order to establish a single >> > font management point and funnel all requests to freetype library >> > through it. >> > >> >> -- >> Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu >> iStoa - https://launchpad.net/istoa >> >> >> > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
