RE: Glyph Bitmap Caching in FreeType

[Feinberg, Matthew]

Ah, okay... now I understand.  For some reason I thought FreeType 2 was
going to render entire strings.

This makes much more sense now.

How likely is it that you'll have a glyph caching component?  I was just
about to have someone start working on adding glyph caching to our
software, but if it's going to be available as an option component in
FT2, then it seems a waste of time to duplicate effort...

--Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: David Turner [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 9:20 AM
To: Feinberg, Matthew
Cc: FreeType Development (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Glyph Bitmap Caching in FreeType


Hi again,

"Feinberg, Matthew" a écrit :
> 
> I know that FreeType 1.x doesn't do any caching of glyph bitmaps.
> 
> However, I understand that FreeType 2 will be able to render strings
of
> text rather than just individual glyphs.  If this is the case, does
> FreeType 2 have some mechanism for caching glyph bitmaps, or does it
at
> least provide hooks so that the application may cache bitmaps?  Or am
I
> completely missing something major here...?
> 
Actually, FreeType 2 itself will not be able to render string of texts,
as it will still be a "font service". However, we'll very much probably
provide some optional components in order to perform the following:

  - glyph caching
  - advanced text layout (possibly through OpenType Layout)

It will be up to the client application to use these additional services
to render text..

Hope it's clear :-)

- David

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