Glyph Outlines in Trace Driver

Hello,

The text_begin function has a gx_path which the documentation notes to define the path where the character outline is to be appended. I have the trace driver print that value out, and then call glyph_outline on the font. I also have the font stroked which presumably dumps out something similar if not the same as the glyph outline. The text is has the operation TEXT_FROM_STRING so there may be multiple glyphs being processed during each text processing operation. 

As an example first time the text_begin function is called the path variable passed in contains (6.62891 82.3711 moveto) and the first element of the path returned by glyph_outline is (204 -256 moveto) with all subsequent path elements having points of approximately the same value. The next time text_begin is called a similar move to is executed the passed in path variable is approximately the same while the first element of the path returned by glyph_outline is (5927 1.05166e+006 moveto) with all subsequent path elements having points of approximately the same value.

Why is there such a large difference in the magnitudes of the path values between glyph outlines? 
How would one transform the glyph outlines into the current coordinate space?
Is text_begin the correct place to be doing this kind of operation?

A full output of the trace output can be found here: 
http://pastebin.com/y5UXCEWQ
And the input file:
http://filebin.ca/250Fnqs1hm3a/Untitled-7.pdf