Re: why not highest bpp?

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Nordstrom 
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
 Why does Plucker by default run in the system default bpp rather than the
 highest bpp possible?

http://www.mail-archive.com/plucker-dev%40rubberchicken.org/msg05186.html

/Mike

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Re: why not highest bpp?

2003-12-02 Thread Alexander R. Pruss 
From: Michael Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
  Why does Plucker by default run in the system default bpp rather than
the
  highest bpp possible?

 http://www.mail-archive.com/plucker-dev%40rubberchicken.org/msg05186.html

The answer in that thread is that text rendering is faster at a lower bpp.
Which devices is this true for?  Is it true for hi-res devices, for
instance?

Alex

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Re: why not highest bpp?

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Nordstrom 
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, Alexander R. Pruss wrote:
 The answer in that thread is that text rendering is faster at a lower bpp.

We will start with the default bit depth; users that want a different
depth should change it in the preferences...

/Mike

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