diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 58e7d33db3..9456851379 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-10-27  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* app/text/gimptextlayout-render.c (gimp_text_layout_render_trafo):
+	minor cleanup.
+
 2008-10-27  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/text/gimptext-bitmap.c: cleanup, removed unused includes.
diff --git a/app/text/gimptextlayout-render.c b/app/text/gimptextlayout-render.c
index addf95475f..5e608aa02c 100644
--- a/app/text/gimptextlayout-render.c
+++ b/app/text/gimptextlayout-render.c
@@ -234,11 +234,12 @@ static void
 gimp_text_layout_render_trafo (GimpTextLayout *layout,
                                cairo_matrix_t *trafo)
 {
-  GimpText *text = layout->text;
+  GimpText      *text = layout->text;
+  const gdouble  norm = 1.0 / layout->yres * layout->xres;
 
-  trafo->xx = text->transformation.coeff[0][0] * 1.0 / layout->yres * layout->xres;
+  trafo->xx = text->transformation.coeff[0][0] * norm;
   trafo->xy = text->transformation.coeff[0][1] * 1.0;
-  trafo->yx = text->transformation.coeff[1][0] * 1.0 / layout->yres * layout->xres;
+  trafo->yx = text->transformation.coeff[1][0] * norm;
   trafo->yy = text->transformation.coeff[1][1] * 1.0;
   trafo->x0 = 0;
   trafo->y0 = 0;