Re: abisuite

Drazen Kacar (dave@srce.hr)
Wed, 5 May 1999 16:37:41 +0200


Shaw Terwilliger wrote:

> I talked a bit with the author of the library, and his opinion was
> basically "client-side fonts will always be really slow when you're
> doing as much drawing as a word processor does." X just can't
> push pixels between the client and the server that fast. Normal
> Type 1 scaling and rasterization occurs in the server, and things
> are pretty snappy.

But it could be faster if DPS was used? Or GLX, even? There is no code
which does anti-aliasing this way, but I'm just wondering about the
possibilities. If DPS can help, it would be a good reason to learn how
to use it.

> I think FreeType is the TrueType library which USED to be GPLed,
> but is now some mutant incompatible custom BSD license.

Once upon a time, there was Incompatible Timesharing System. Now there
are Incompatible Licencing Systems. The human race is improving. >:-)

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