[interfacekit] Re: FreeType2 and font cache

Yes, my bad.  Keeping the *rendered* fonts in memory.  The fonts 
themselves are itty-bitty. =)

FreeType2 does antialiasing and, now that I check, has a caching 
subsystem.  It's unclear from my cursory examination whether it caches 
the rendered fonts or just the font data.

e

Marcus Overhagen wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
>

Other related posts: