Cairo's Arial font smaller than Arial in browsers
Ken Resander <[email protected]>
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I am using GTK3.0 and the Cairo that came with Ubuntu 12.04.
I am only just beginning with Cairo and have gone through the introductory tutorials and written some very tiny fragments to experiment and learn including the following for text:
cairo_select_font_face(cr, "Arial", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL,
CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size(cr, 12); // <<<<< assume this is in pts
cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 0, 0, 0);
const char * str = "This is text" ;
cairo_font_extents_t fexts;
cairo_font_extents ( cr, &fexts ) ;
cairo_move_to(cr, 0,fexts.ascent);
cairo_show_text(cr, str );
The text came out looking smaller than I had expected so I checked using Firefox, Chromium and Opera with the following tiny html file:
<style>
.some_class {
padding: 0px;
border: 2px solid green;
}
</style>
<body>
<p class="some_class" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">This is text</p>
</body>
The three browsers showed the text in exactly the same way. The height of the capital letter T was 12 pixels for the browsers and only 8 pixels for the Cairo output.
Why is this?
Ken
P.S. I was using screen capture and the GIMP Image Editor to view the pixels zooming 16x with a pixel grid.
The ascent and descent for the Cairo font choice were 11 and 3 respectively.
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