Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

[Fred Kiefer]

Adrian Robert wrote:
> First, I can't find any reference to this on the web.  Is everyone 
> rendering this font character-by-character manually?  Leaving the 
> question of what's happening in Gnome/Gtk aside, if I render in GNUstep 
> using a call to DPSmoveto() followed by DPSshow() for every character, 
> the problem goes away.  It looks like this is what Terminal.app does.  
> Surprisingly, on Art this is actually reasonably fast, but on Xlib 
> performance is unacceptable.

Which version of xlib is that slow? The standard one or the one using AA 
fonts? For the later I still have a patch lying around that should speed 
it up a lot, but I never had reason to dig in that.

Fred