And, out of curiosity, what's wrong with cairo's text rendering for the OLPC machine? <div>On 11/6/06, Erik Blankinship <<a href="mailto:erikb@mediamods.com"> erikb@mediamods.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thanks for the warning about cairo's text rendering. Could you please send a reference to how to use pangocairo with pycairo?  I think that would be helpful for everyone on this list who might use text in their application. Erik<div> <div>On 11/6/06, Behdad Esfahbod <<a href="mailto:besfahbo@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> besfahbo@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:27 -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Hello > > If I want to use the system font in my cairo context, where do I find > the font file to load in? NEVER EVER use cairo's text rendering capabilities to render any text. Not in olpc at least.  Use pangocairo ALL THE TIME. And for families, like others suggested, use "sans-serif", "serif", and "monospace". > Thanks, > Erik -- behdad <a href="http://behdad.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://behdad.org/</a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>