[interfacekit] Re: FreeType2 and font cache

Erik Jakowatz <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> That reminds me. What *is* a font cache, anyway - is it merely just holding 
>> fonts in memory so we don't have to load them from disk?
>
>That's about the size of it.  The key, of course, is making it effecient. =)

I would expect a font cache to cache most of the rendering, 
this means converting formulas into a bitmap, of a font, too.

This might be a problem with antialising, but probably only because
I don't understand much of this ussues.

Marcus

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