class cairohintmetrics - The CairoHintMetrics class

Introduction

Specifies whether to hint font metrics; hinting font metrics means quantizing them so that they are integer values in device space. Doing this improves the consistency of letter and line spacing, however it also means that text will be laid out differently at different zoom factors.

Class synopsis

CairoHintMetrics {

/* Constants */

const integer METRICS_DEFAULT = 0 ;

const integer METRICS_OFF = 1 ;

const integer METRICS_ON = 2 ;

}

Predefined Constants

CairoHintMetrics::METRICS_DEFAULT: Hint metrics in the default manner for the font backend and target device
CairoHintMetrics::METRICS_OFF: Do not hint font metrics
CairoHintMetrics::METRICS_ON: Hint font metrics