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Re: The WHY of Xft
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: The WHY of Xft |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 07:30:55 +0900 |
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:49:50 -0500, James Cloos <address@hidden> wrote:
> My understanding is that when a (server-side) font is opened by the
> X server it must determine all of the glyphs' metrics, which requires
> rendering all of them.
I think this is not true -- it seems to be exactly this behavior which
-deferglyphs stops. Without -deferglyphs, there was indeed a
noticeable freeze when using a CJK font for the first time; I've not
encountered this freeze since. Debian has had -deferglyphs as the
default for quite a long time (e.g. if you use gdm, in
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf); perhaps other distros do not.
Can xft still use bitmap fonts? In the case of CJK, the commonly
available X bitmap fonts do seem to be generally more attractive at
typical text-editor size than what freetype produces for commonly[*]
available scaled fonts.
[*] By commonly available, I really mean "free and packaged in Debian"
... Not the best definition I suppose, but maybe indicative of what a
typical lazy user like me sees...
I'm all for xft BTW; don't let my sniping give you the opposite
impression... :-)
-Miles
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- Antialiased text on X11, James Cloos, 2005/03/10
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/10
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Han Boetes, 2005/03/10
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Jan D., 2005/03/11
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Ali Ijaz Sheikh, 2005/03/18
- RE: Antialiased text on X11, Drew Adams, 2005/03/18
- The WHY of Xft [was: Re: Antialiased text on X11], James Cloos, 2005/03/19
- Re: The WHY of Xft [was: Re: Antialiased text on X11], Miles Bader, 2005/03/19
- Re: The WHY of Xft, James Cloos, 2005/03/20
- Re: The WHY of Xft,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: The WHY of Xft, David Hansen, 2005/03/21
- Re: The WHY of Xft, James Cloos, 2005/03/21
- Re: The WHY of Xft, Kenichi Handa, 2005/03/20
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Miles Bader, 2005/03/18
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Jan D., 2005/03/19
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Miles Bader, 2005/03/19
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Stefan Monnier, 2005/03/19
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Han Boetes, 2005/03/19
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Jan D., 2005/03/20
- Re: Antialiased text on X11, Miles Bader, 2005/03/19