Re: Please help with image rotation and scaling.

[Alexander Malmberg]

Pete French wrote:
> 
> > The image handling is still limited, and it's interface isn't well
> > suited to what backends need; I don't use it.
> 
> Its a shame because otherwise I would switch over to it - I assume it
> handles rotated text properly, which is mising in the X backend.

It==libart or back-art?

libart doesn't deal with text at all. In theory, you could use its path
drawing code to draw glyphs, but that's a very small part of text
handling.

back-art uses freetype for text handling, and can do arbitrary linear
transforms for glyphs.

> Actually, once upon a tim somebody submitted patches to do rotated and scaled
> text properly - whatever became of them ?
> 
> -bat.

- Alexander Malmberg