Hi Esteban,
Yes, I create Rossal shapes (including a custom PangoLabel) and then open
the canvas using Morphic.
Interestingly if I use the command line pango-view to render to a file, the
results are the same as Pharo.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 9:59 PM Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are you rendering your Cairo results inside a Morphic window?
>
> Esteban
> On Jan 29 2022, at 8:42 am, Stewart Maclean wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on a proof of concept reimplementation of an application
> developed in VisualWorks using Cairo and Pango.
>
> When I compare the renderings I see that the VisualWorks has a finer
> grained resolution.
>
> Initially I thought is was to do with my anti aliasing settings, but upon
> further investigation I'm wondering if it is because the VisualWorks uses
> the Quartz backend.
>
> Please see the attached for a comparison - Pharo rendering using Cairo and
> Pango on the left, VisualWorks using Cairo and Pango on the right. Notice
> the almost double the number of "pixels".
>
> I've tried switching to using the Quartz Athens surface, but nothing gets
> displayed.
>
> I would appreciate it if someone can confirm that my analysis is correct,
> and that in order to get the better results I would need to hook up to the
> Quartz backend?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stewart
>
>
