> According to the FreeType documentation, the fastest way to compute
> the width of some text string is to use FT_Get_Advance function that
> returns the advance values without loading and rendering the glyphs.
See documentation of FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY for reasons why this
can take a long time.
> But working on this task, I figured out, that using the cache
> sub-system and loading the whole images with "FTC_ImageCache_Lookup"
> and using the advance from the loaded image is faster than the above
> function.
>
> And faster at least 5..10 times!
Hmm. Please provide a small snippet that demonstrates the problem.
Werner
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