Re: Character shifting with cairo

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> That patch helped a little, but did not made it perfect. Wihtout the patch, it 
> looks like Riccardos screenshot, sometimes characters above each other.
> With the patch, the characters are not above each other anymore, but still very 
> close to each other.
yep.
> As I wrote in the other thread, the problem for me only seems to be on screens 
> with 4:3 resolution. On widescreens everything looks good, with and without the 
> patch.
I cannot confirm this claim, at least not generally. The problem happens 
indeed on my laptop which is 4:3, but when I export the display to 
another computer, which is 4:3 too, just higher instead of 1024x768, it 
does not show. However, it might "go away" with exporting due to some 
font rendering nuances? I'm not sure. I notice that, for example in 
GWorkspace, where the screen bitmap font is used, spacing is perfect, 
where it is anti-aliased, it is not. (For example Inspector of 
GWorkspace vs. its list views). I suppose it is the same system font 
Helvetica, so this AA vs. non-AA mix is curious, possibly slightly 
different sizes?

Riccardo