[ft-devel] rasterization without sorting - in defence of my approach

2010-07-23 Thread GRAHAM ASHER
The current FreeType approach is definitely inefficient for some shapes. For example, imagine an almost horizontal stroke N pixels wide, which has a top edge starting at pixel T + 1 and ending at pixel T. (Such strokes occur frequently in Chinese ideographs.) This contour (the top edge) will

RE: [ft-devel] rasterization without sorting - in defence of my approach

2010-07-23 Thread David Bevan
-Original Message- From: freetype-devel-bounces+david.bevan=pb@nongnu.org [mailto:freetype-devel-bounces+david.bevan=pb@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of GRAHAM ASHER Sent: 23 July 2010 08:57 To: Werner LEMBERG Cc: FreeType Subject: [ft-devel] rasterization without sorting

Re: [ft-devel] rasterization without sorting - in defence of my approach

2010-07-23 Thread James Cloos
DB == David Bevan david.be...@pb.com writes: DB Since some of us use FreeType to render glyphs at printer (300dpi, DB 600dpi [or 1200+ dpi, for that matter -JimC]) resolutions, any DB performance improvement, especially for Far Eastern fonts will DB be appreciated. And many more will do so in