[Gambas-user] Font size vs. Paint.Scale

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 20.10.2014 17:53, schrieb Fabien Bodard:
> Le 20 oct. 2014 15:32, "Rolf-Werner Eilert" <eilert-sprachen at ...221...> a
> écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just browsed the help text for the Paint system, and found this. It
>> sounds contradictory to me:
>>
>> BEWARE: The font size, as returned by Paint.Font.Size, is an absolute
> size.
>> Its unit is the typographic point.
>> A typographic point is 1/72 of an inch, i.e. about 0,353 mm.
>>
>> [Ok up to here, but now:]
>>
>>
>> BUT: The font size will be modified according to the paint matrix (i.e.
>> if you use Paint.Scale, Paint.Translate, Paint.Rotate...)
>>
>> [That doesn't make sense to me]
>>
>> The tip is to use Paint.Scale to have a coordinate system like mm or cm
>> for instance. The font size, however, would have to stay reliable in
>> either case: regardless of if I look at a line as 20 mm or 2 cm, the
>> letters above this line would have to be the same size.
>>
>> Only if I used the paint matrix to "enlarge" or "decrease" the whole
>> page in size (e. g. A5 - A4), I would have to ensure that each element
>> of the page still fits in size. Don't know if it was meant this way...
>>
>> Or did I get this completely wrong?
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>> ------------------------------------
> If you use paint matrix the letter will change their size
> My way in gb.report is to redraw all and just change the arrange computing.
>
> So all thé lines and boxes and texts are maintain their size. Even on b5 or
> A3. Well as well the content is reordered and the pagecount recomputed.

Yes, then I got it right I think.

Thank you, Fabien, I'll see what comes up to my mind next :)

Rolf