Re: Drawing performance (was Re: Bidirectional support)


Subject: Re: Drawing performance (was Re: Bidirectional support)
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 13:10:56 CST


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonard Rosenthol" <leonardr@lazerware.com>
To: "Mike Nordell" <tamlin@algonet.se>; "AbiWord-dev"
<abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Drawing performance (was Re: Bidirectional support)

At 3:25 AM +0100 12/15/00, Mike Nordell wrote:

> Not only is doing a single "writeText" faster, BUT it also
> allows glyph rendering engines to do fancy things like subpixel
> positioning, ligiturization, etc.

And kerning too? See bug <URL:
http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=949 >.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer



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