Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> This leads to the next question -- is it possible to detect at runtime 
> whether you are running under Art or Xlib?  (So as to change rendering 
> strategies.)
In a way, yes. You can check for the backend contexts, like this:

if (GSClassFromName("ARTContext") != nil)
...


> Is there any more efficient way to render with regular spacing than 
> repeated calls to moveto and show?
Try DPSxyshow and variants.

> Sllightly OT, there are no DPS commands on OS X, right?  You have to 
> use the Quartz functions, which all start with "CG"?  (The API does 
> not look as clean as DPS, but hopefully it grows on one?)
Yes.