J.Pietschmann wrote: > Well, as far as I understand TTF and PFB files have a directory > and lots of pointers to other parts of the file. The metric > extractor loads the whole file into memory, for convenience. > This can be a significant memory load, and all the glyph > geometry definitions take up space unnecessarily. > This could probably be avoided using the RandomAccessFile class, > but I expect performance going down the toilet in this case.
If I followed this, then we would expect the current method to use a more memory, but less processor time, while parsing the font file at runtime would likely use less memory, but more processing. Am I understanding you correctly? (I understand that we are speaking in terms of expectations, not having actually measured the effects of either approach). The other question that I should bring in here is whether any one has real-world experience with the tradeoffs of using java.awt.Font. And more importantly, are any of these tradeoffs in any of these three scenarios worth considering. In other words, should be worry about these issues at all, or assume that Moore's Law will in good time fix all of them? This is not a rhetorical question. > Another point, important IMO, is that the metrics file can be > edited after extraction. Some fonts contain awful data. I understand what you are saying, but I almost think this is a negative. If the font metrics we use are incomplete because we aren't looking at the other Type 1 pieces, that should be fixable. If they are bad because the font is bad, I am not sure how much we want to encourage the use of bad fonts. Pointers to font editing software and reliable font suppliers might be more productive. The real question here is whether, if we had an alternative that would allow us to abstract fonts at the java level instead of at the FOP level, would we be willing to give up the ability to hack the metrics files in exchange? Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
