At 5:29 PM +0100 on 3/11/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>>Render larger, shrink on copy. Avoids pixelization.
>
>Anthony,
>
> at small sizes it doesn't. Then you'd just have a irregular black bar if
>you're unlucky.
Playing with text that small by any method can easily give you a mess.
For small text, we can play with intercharacter and word spacing.
> It's been updated in the meantime.
Parts of it.
>CopyBits is pretty fast actually, it's
>just very generic, which means if we can make certain assumptions we can
>write something that's a bit faster than CopyBits (e.g. if we can be sure
>the palettes are the same, we can leave out the color palette conversion
>code).
Or slower, because we don't get the hardware acceleration.
