Werner LEMBERG wrote:
I'm not sure if bitmap scaling is really expected things as the
outcome on the request. I'm thinking of other possibilities too as
someone was sometimes raising the sort of "How to stop fallback" or
something like that. for instance, how about adding new binding mode
to ask for strict matching, and if no candidates, simply fails?
wound't that way avoid such situation? or is it better relying on
that bitmap scaling feature in the rendering libraries?
That may depends on what one wants to do. having both
implementation may be ideal though.
Indeed. Bitmap fonts scaled by non-integer values look horrible if
the output is B/W, and just a bit better if the target is grayscale
(this is, the scaling has been done with proper dithering).
I tend to agree, it's probably hardly worth the trouble, after all, any
sane fontconfig configuration should direct matches away from bitmap
fonts if the size difference is too considerable.
But then I see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23539 and
just in case it is related, I think for targets like PS or PDF where
bitmap fonts are scaled anyway it's maybe something that could be
thought about.
Also, _down_scaling large bitmap glyphs to grayscale by 50% or more
could probably look OK even on image targets. Everything else, I'm not
so sure. What I definitely wouldn't want is all Cairo-based applications
suddenly rendering upscaled 12px or downscaled 14px just because some
CSS style computation ends at 13px, but OK, Behdad states that for small
size differences it doesn't make sense anyway.
As for the config suggested. It generally doesn't seem like a bad idea
to allow sub-expressions in <matrix> elements, if it's not too
complicated to implement. Maybe one could also expose both pattern and
font pixelsizes to expressions, something like <name
target="pattern">pixelsize</name> vs. <name
target="font">pixelsize</name>? I'm not sure about using the 'dpi' and
'size' properties to calculate the scaling factor because these
properties will not always be there.
But in the end, even if fontconfig isn't changed an application could
still add that scaling itself by just comparing pixelsizes before and
after FcFontMatch and adding the necessary properties, right?
Raimund
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