yes. Anyone volunteering to profile awt's memory usage ?
At 05:40 AM 7/29/02, Ramana wrote: > >Ralph, > Your idea of "Fixing the awt renderer" is the correct one. After a >deep thought, I too came to the conclusion that instead of writing a PDF >renderer, if we can tune up the AWT renderer, it will be great. The main >problem with AWT renderer now is the heavy memory it uses. We need to find >the source of memory drain and tune it. > We need to come up with the basic plan for this. Also, we have to >first look and summarize the current issues with AWT renderer and step >accordingly. > >Ramana. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ralph LaChance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:06 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request > > >I agree with Oleg's last sentencetotally - which I translate roughly to >"lets fix the >awt renderer" > >In fact, I'd add a 3rd (or 2 1/2) user - the one who wishes to go directly >from >xml to a printer via fop. > >My colleagues here and I have inserted several changes to tweak spacings, >borders, >and so on over the past two years, and several other contributors have >refined the awt renderer over even more. > >Recently, I got stumped by a problem in that java's font engine rasterizes >glyphs >differently depending on whether the target was the on-screen graphics >context >or a printer context. (see archives) - anyone who could help unsnarl that >mess >would be making a noteworthy contribution. > >At 07:59 AM 7/28/02, you wrote: > >Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: > > It might also be helpful to recognize that as FOP becomes more popular >there > >>are distinctly _two_ groups of "users" emerging. The first group has been > >>using FOP from the beginning and those are the Java developers who use FOP > >>to create some other end product. Recently I've noticed that there are >more > >>people attempting to use FOP who are simply people who want to use FOP as >an > >>end product (more of an FO viewer) and want it to fulfill the role of a > >>product like X-Smiles (which unfortunately still falls far short of its >goal > >>of being a good FO viewer). > > > >I believe AWT previewer someday in the future will become some kind of FO > >IDE and afaik even nowadays somebody in the team has something to donate. > > > >-- > >Oleg Tkachenko > >Multiconn International, Israel > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ' Best, > -Ralph LaChance > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Best, -Ralph LaChance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
