cairo_scale and (freetype) fonts only scales glyphs badly, layout even worse
Submitted by Onne Gorter
Assigned to David Turner
Description
Created attachment 48054 example1
rendering fonts (especially at normal 10-18px sizes) appear very bad when scaled, like when doing cairo_scale(cairo, 0.5, 1.0)
The problem seems to be the glyphs are individually scaled, and then laid out as (almost) normal. The result is much worse compared to rendering the text normal and then scaling it back.
see attachments how more pixels are inserted when rendering scaled
Version: 1.10.2