[ANN] FreeType Plus release

Andrew Tween amtween at hotmail.com
Tue May 1 00:44:07 UTC 2007


Hi Brad,
> Oh.. forgot to add the obvious: change page dn/up to arrows above and
> below the menu. Hover over either and it automatically scrolls in that
> direction. That would at least make it easier for people to browse.

good idea.

> The
> problem, I think, is it takes a while to render the next "set" of font
> names. Right? Seems so on my system (which is slow with a lot of fonts.)
> So, you could have the rendered list before the request.

Yes. It is slow.
Sophie caches a bitmap of each font  and renders that instead of loading the
font through Freetype.and rendering the text.
Something similar is needed to speed things up.

Cheers,
Andy




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