Re: ps/tt fonts in gnome apps

[Cody Russell <bratsche dfw net>]

You could write your canvas object to only render the glyphs once until
the canvas resizes. Turning the glyphs into vector objects wouldn't be
that big of a hit I think. Find me the most complex TT font you can find
and we'll measure how long it takes.

Cody

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Andrew Edem wrote:

> That would involve turning TT fonts into vector graphics. I'm not sure of the
> efficiency of the canvas, and TT fonts can be very complex in nature. What
> about an extension to the canvas widget to support font rendering (without X)?
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> Cody Russell wrote:
> 
> > If you write an app that loads TT fonts and displays them in a canvas
> > (using bpaths or whatever) that would not be hard to print would it?
> >
> > Cody
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > > Because those fonts are being converted to X fonts on-the-fly via an X
> > > server (I assume), and there is no way to ask X for the printable version
> > > of a font. Thus you can't use X fonts for any application that wants to
> > > print.
> > >
> > > Yes, this aspect of X sucks a lot.
> > >
> > > Gnumeric and AbiWord (in two different ways) install their own set of
> > > fonts with a known X-font/printable-font mapping so they can both display
> > > and print the font.
> > >
> > > Havoc
> > >
> > >
> > >
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