From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 20:20:14 GMT
At 8:58 PM +0100 2/26/02, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>That's very cool and so on, but I *think* that rendering text with
>freetype is a sloooooooooooow dog in X systems without the XRender
>extension.
Incorrect!
Application direct rendering with FT on X (any version of X,
with or w/o XRender) is quite fast since it doesn't use the OS to
deal with fonts, vectors, etc.
>So, just wondering, are we going to stop supportting xfree < 4.x ?
>not that I care too much myself, I just want to know people opinion.
>
No need to do so - it will work with any version of X.
Leonard
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