??? 29/11/2002 8:37:09 ??, ?/? Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????:
> >Third attempt to send this mail. At least none of the first two came >back to me. > >Joachim Van der Auwera wrote: >> The slower loading is mainly caused by the precalculated fonts. When ProWesS >> is configured to have no precalculated fonts, the system will be much >> faster. This would however affect the performance later on. > >So what's the optimum settings for the font cache? I must say that I >still don't use ProWesS because even scrolling one line in "ProWesS >config" for example takes about one second. >I have tried many settings but not much luck so far. >Any other tuning tips? > I've found out that when using a sans serif/single width font (like my Suisse-Latin one - I guess less "wiggly" characters are easier to calculate ;-) and set two sizes on everything it's a little slow to load but after that it flies :-) (Tried it both on QPC and QXL that way and it's next to none.). Other tricks include: fiddle with the TIMEOUT values, change the scroll value to greater than 200, reduce the shadow to 1 pixel or none -never tried the latter really but I will now that I thought about it-). Use only two colours for everything (I have a nice set of blue). I have to dig up my configuration and send it to you. I was going to write an article on QLT on this but unfortunately my disk crashed then and I lost my QXL.WIN files :-( (I have the configuration files backed up *SOMEWHERE* and I never had the time to play around more with it) On SMSQ/E v.2y99 on the QXL with Mode 4 it's as fast as WMAN (using the "trick" with the fonts, ProWesS reader renders almost as fast as any Windows program) and if you use the gcc compiled version (available from www.dokos-gr.net/ ~dj/indexsms.html ) you can't even see a hint of it redrawing (of course when you run hi-colour on the QXL it's another story even with my overclocked ISA bus) >Maybe the anti-aliasing should be optional. Not only because it slows >things down but because for me it blurs small fonts too much. It is. The anti-aliased version comes as a separate download... and when used as described above it's quite usable. The problem with the "bluring" is the side-effect of using a custom font engine. Normal Postscript used to have this problem which they were addressing back to Adobe Level 1 with generating two sets of glyphs. One for smaller sizes (below 8 pts... mind you at that time screens were smaller as well) and one for the rest... PROForma because of speed constraints cannot use that. FreeType would be another possibility but ONLY if compiled with qdos-gcc (and even then the code is WAY too slow to be usable on anything less than a Q40) >BTW: Is there a ProWesS font similar to MS Times? Yes the "Guardian" (Times, Guardian... once you see one newspaper you've seen 'em all ;-) font by me, freely available via the usual sources :-) (Shameless plug I know... but in any case its frei as you Germans say ;-) > >What I like most about ProWesS is the "type" concept. I actually >started writing replacement 3D types some years ago but never had the >time to continue. What would make ProWesS really fly would be a complete rewrite in assembly :-) Any takers? Phoebus
