Re: [gnome-print] Serializing a PangoFont

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 00:29, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> Around 16 o'clock on Jul 8, Chema Celorio wrote:
> 
> > I am unsure of the long term usage of the metafile but since everything is
> > working fine as it is I don't want to touch that code right now. So about
> > sharing a metafile between computers, not for the visible future. It is
> > just an intermediate format for now which will go away if i ever find a
> > reason to do so (i.e. performance hit)
> 
> Unless you staple the font object down while you're printing, there's no 
> way to ensure that you'll get the same object with two calls into the font 
> API -- the font configuration may well change and you may get garbled 
> output.  It might be "good enough" for the time being, but I think you 
> should consider a future where the meta file goes away, not for 
> performance reasons, but because it doesn't completely encapsulate the 
> page representation and it's supposed to.

Agreed.
 
> I haven't yet found a good reason to use rand() when picking fonts, but 
> even still, there's a *lot* of magic going on between the Gtk+ API and the 
> printed page...

thanks,
Chema