-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 November 2001 11:09 am, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 8 o'clock on Nov 2, David Bishop wrote: > > I think this has been covered before, but I couldn't find it in the > > archives. I have AA turned on with xfree 4.1.0 (debian/sid) using an Ati > > Rage128Pro. However, all "AA" apps take 5-6 times longer to startup than > > they do without AA. Is there anyway to speed that up/cache it? I don't > > have this problem with my Matrox G450 at home, so it's probably card > > specific. > > If you've got an older version of Xft installed, and you've got a *lot* of > TrueType fonts, then applications can take a long time to start as Xft > used to read all of the fonts to find out what was available.
I was under the impression that I had a comparable number of fonts on both machines, however it looks like I was mistaken. I have over 1200 ttf alone on my work machine, and *none* on my home machine (though still some AA'able ones). I will see if I can dog-down my home box as well :-) > > The other question is with regards to fonts (gack). Is there a simple > > explanation as to why I cannot use both AA fonts and non-AA fonts at the > > same time in my QT apps? And if so, is there a solution? I only ask about > > QT on this list, as I have the impression that Keith was the one that > > hacked AA support into it in the first place. > > Yes, you can have both. Add an X resource of the form > > Xft.core: true > > to your configuruation, this will cause Xft to list both core and Render > fonts to Qt. I've not tried this particular experiment; it may produce > some "unusual" results. > 1) it worked and 2) I haven't seen any "weird" effects yet. Thanks! - -- "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE74zO714eKrYdPXKkRAlHuAJ47FAR1wWz1YIRDZYYTprsFv1QEAACdEUlF x2lfmREjClUTVrIqDCczRWU= =Z1z6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
