Re: Rendering of fixed-width fonts

[Fred Kiefer]

Adrian Robert wrote:
> On 2005-03-15 12:38:44 -0500 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any more efficient way to render with regular spacing than 
> > > repeated calls to moveto and show?
> > Try DPSxyshow and variants.
>
>
> Ah.  Attached is a patch implementing these functions in back-art.  ;-)
>
> It modifies the existing DPSshow implementation to handle DPSxyshow,
> DPSxshow, and DPSyshow.  Partial support is there for DPSwidthshow.
> Right now I just patched ftfont-old.m since that's what I'm using
> (freetype-2.1.2), and anyway this patch needs some feedback.

Not sure if this patch is really needed. I remember moving the 
implementation of these methods up to the GSC level. So removing the 
current art implementation should give the full behaviour. Perhaps not 
optimized for speed, but as we want to get rid of them anyway, it should do.