[REBOL] Re: how does amiga view work with fonts?
From: jojon:swipnet:se at: 16-May-2001 19:20
Petr Krenzelok wrote:
>Hi,
>my amiga friend complained a little bit about amiga version of View and told
>me it feels slower because of some strange aproach View takes while working
>with fonts? According to him postAmigaOS 3.1 versions contain some
>FontCache, but View seems still to scan hd instead of using cache?
I haven't checked that, but I got a nice speedup by creating bitmaps
of the CGTimes and CGTriumvirate fonts which are used by default, all the
way from 1 to 40 pixels, to cover any strange occurrance. :9
Bullet.library certainly does take its time in creating the bitmaps,
so not allowing it to do so on the fly, makes for one hell of a difference.
If somebody could remind me on how to change which fonts are used
by default, it would be very helpful by the way. The truetype engine
is not only faster, but it also produce better looking results than
the compugraphics one and it would mean one could switch to the
same fonts View on other platforms use.
TIA.
/Jonny Johansson