Subject: Re: Drawing performance (was Re: Bidirectional support)
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 14:30:38 CST
At 8:10 PM +0100 12/15/00, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>At 3:25 AM +0100 12/15/00, Leonard Rosenthol 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 >.
>
Potentially, yes. Though it is entirely dependant on the
glyph rendering engine in question. For example, I don't believe
that Windows GDI or XWindows will do this automatically.
Leonard
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