Re: abisuite
Eric W. Sink (eric@postman.abisource.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 08:51:26 -0500
> Do you intend (at some point) to implement anti-aliasing of text on
> Unix? I've seen only one program which does this (gfont) and it does it
> by using freetype lib for true type fonts and t1lib for Type 1 fonts.
> t1lib can't work if the font are not local, but since printing also
> needs local fonts, I suppose it's not a big restriction.
>
> It would probably be rather slow, but it's nice as an option.
Actually, I really wanted to use t1lib for our font rendering, since
we would get anti-aliasing support that way. However, your prediction
of it being "rather slow" understates things pretty dramatically.
We actually implemented it, by integrating t1lib into the app and
trying it out. Even with anti-aliasing turned off, it was very
slow. Really, really slow. The continental drift is noticeably
faster.
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Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
eric@abisource.com
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