Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

[Adrian Robert]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:

> 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.

AA.  If you send the patch my way I'll test it and fiddle with it if 
need be.