Thanks for the warning about cairo's font rendering.<br><br>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.
<br><br>Erik<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Behdad Esfahbod</b> <<a href="mailto:besfahbo@redhat.com">besfahbo@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><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:<br>> Hello<br>><br>> If I want to use the system font in my cairo context, where do I find<br>> the font file to load in?<br><br>NEVER EVER use cairo's text rendering capabilities to render any text.
<br>Not in olpc at least. Use pangocairo ALL THE TIME.<br><br>And for families, like others suggested, use "sans-serif", "serif", and<br>"monospace".<br><br><br>> Thanks,<br>> Erik<br>
<br>--<br>behdad<br><a href="http://behdad.org/">http://behdad.org/</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>