Enum cairo_hint_metrics_t

Specifies whether to hint font metrics; hinting font metrics means quantizing them so that they are integer values in device space. Doing this improves the consistency of letter and line spacing, however it also means that text will be laid out differently at different zoom factors.

The enum base type is int .

Enum members

Name Description
CAIRO_HINT_METRICS_DEFAULT Hint metrics in the default manner for the font backend and target device
CAIRO_HINT_METRICS_OFF Do not hint font metrics
CAIRO_HINT_METRICS_ON Hint font metrics

Authors

Johannes Pfau cairoD
cairo team cairo

Copyright

License

cairoD wrapper/bindings Boost License 1.0
cairo LGPL 2.1 / MPL 1.1