Re: Firefox donīs show very small font size

Apologies, wrong forum.

Ken

On 20/06/2008 3:07 AM, Ken Stacey wrote:
> 
> Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> Keep in mind that scaling a 6px font by a factor of 2 using an affine 
>> transformation is NOT the same as using a 12px font.
> 
> Like this ?
> 
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 50 30">
>  <text x="0" y="1" transform="scale(12)" font-size="1">1px * 12</text>
>  <text x="0" y="25" font-size="12">12px</text>
> </svg>
> 
> The 1px font-size scaled by 12 looks the same as the 12px font-size.  As 
> you would expect.
> 
> It "shouldn't" matter what the font-size is nor the scaling.  The only 
> thing that matters is the font-size in initial viewPort coordinates (eg 
> screen pixels) after applying the CTM.  Then the viewing agent renders 
> that size.
> 
> There are limitations in Firefox - the viewPort font-size is rounded, 
> and there is the limit placed on nscoord (as described by Robert 
> O'Callahan earlier).
> 
> I think that Klaus' font-size is victim of the nscoord limit.  If you 
> just play with the font-size in Klaus' recent message, (using Firefox 
> 2.0.0.14) the text is not rendered at 0.032, but is rendered at 0.033.
> 
> Klaus, is it unreasonable for you to multiply all your coordinates by 1000?
> 
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>      viewBox="9502.27 -47240.23 108.06 0173.79">
> <title>Map of Liechtenstein</title>
>  <rect x="9502.2" y="-47240.23" width="108.06" height="173.79" 
> fill="silver"/>
>  <circle cx="9522.09" cy="-47139.35" r="2" />
>  <text x="9522.09" y="-47139.35" font-size="4">Vaduz</text>
> </svg>
> 
> Ken
> 
> 

Received on Friday, 20 June 2008 00:38:42 UTC