Markus Kuhn Wrote: >Steve Swales wrote on 2001-12-14 18:17 UTC: >> Since render is not yet a standard extension, and making this change would >> disable Xft on all commercial X servers aside from XFree86, I would caution >> against it at this time. > >I think, Keith addressed that objection already in his original proposal: > >> >Server-side fonts were added to Xft to support legacy X servers without the >> >Render extension. I suggest that instead of using server-side fonts, Xft >> >should rasterize glyphs with FreeType and draw with the Render extension >> >where available and using the core protocol for legacy servers without > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >Render support. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Or did I miss something?
But every glyph would have to be sent over the wire as a pixmap, every time it's drawn. Performance would be so bad, particularly over the wire, that it would be as good as broken... or am I missing something? -steve >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> > >_______________________________________________ >Render mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render Steve Swales Senior Manager, Platform Globalization Engineering X.Org Chairperson Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2515 North First Street, MS USJC07-201 San Jose, CA 95131 Direct 408 635-0623 Fax 408 635-0670 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Render mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/render
