[Gambas-user] Printer Font Size Problem

[Ed & Clare Kelm]

Benoit:

My apologies.  The font is Droid Sans.  Thank you for explaining the 
purpose of FontScale

What is happening is "Paint.Font.Bold=TRUE" applies the FontScale to the 
Font.Size, and so does "Paint.Font.Bold=FALSE".

In my case the FontScale is ~0.97. so every time I change the state of 
Font.Bold, the font shrinks a little bit.  In a page having lots of 
individual bold words, the font shrinks to extremely tiny!

That can't be right.

Also shouldn't the Font.Size be what I set?   In other words, if I say 
"Paint.Font.Size =14", shouldn't "a = Paint.Font.Size" set a to 14?


Ed K.


On 10/17/19 5:00 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 18/10/2019 à 01:49, Ed & Clare Kelm a écrit :
>> Benoit:
>>
>> Setting Paint.FontScale to 1 solves my particular problem, but I 
>> don't understand why changing the value of the Bold property applies 
>> FontScale to the font size.   That doesn't seem right.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ed K.
>>
>
> No, FontScale is applied when opening the printer device, so that the 
> size of the font you defined will have the same size on the printer 
> and on the screen. It's not so easy. And so the Paint.FontScale property.
>
> The reason why the bold font does not have the same size may depends 
> on the font. But I asked you which font you use, and you didn't answer 
> (you sent apparently the address in memory of the font, which nobody 
> cares).
>
> Regards,
>