Re: GnomeCanvasText behavioural change

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Alex Larsson wrote:

> This semantic difference makes it very hard to fix the item, and I would 
> like to change the AA mode version back to work as it did in 1.4. This 
> will remove the (ugly) scaled text feature though, so I guess it is an API
> change that has to be agreed to.

I'll never understand why one would want to scale text by rendering it
into a bitmap and scaling that.
What should be done is rendering it anti-aliased, at a _very large_ size, 
into a greyscale pixbuf, and then translating that. Or maybe render the
text with size = requested_size * zoom_factor

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