Re: pngcairo performance on Windows

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 15:06:14 Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> Yes, this could be.  I understand that pango uses FreeType for
> font-handling on Linux, but uses "native" win32 font-handling on
> MS Windows.  Maybe the difference lies there.  If so, I have no
> idea if the bug lies in the underlying win32 font routines or in
> pango's interface to them.

This seems directly relevant, if not very hopeful:

  http://old.nabble.com/Font-Quality-Windows-Vista64-td21729133.html

And this may be relevant also (not sure)

  http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-January/012647.html

Also it seems there are relevant known problems on the Cairo project
TODO list.

  http://cairographics.org/todo/

Might it be worth forwarding this whole problem to a cairo developer list?


-- 
Ethan A Merritt