Re: [Rlib-devel] RPDF font embedding

[Zoltan B. <zb...@du...>]

Hi,

Bob Doan =C3=ADrta:

>Hey,
>
>Patch looks good so far!  You probably want to update from CVS, I've
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Thanks! OK, I update my local CVS copy, although I did a checkout on=20
Monday. :-)
I will send a newer patch soon.

>been playing in RPDF a little.  I made some gchar * GStrings for speed
>improvement.  In general, RLIB is now 2x faster with some of the
>speedups I made over the past few days.  One of the worst things it was
>doing was doing a getlocale on every format!  That's quite expensive
>because it has to do a getenv.
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Impressive speedup.

>We probably don't want to check for ttf2pt1 on rpdf_new because that
>would be expensive.  We probably only want to check for it once if we
>are actually going to embed fonts.
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What about doing it on the first rpdf_new()?
A global static variable may keep this info.

>We also might want to be able to cache the results of ttf2pt1 in some
>sorta binary form to load from in order to optionally speed up internal
>font loading.  Maybe provide some sorta utility w/ RLIB to do it.
> =20
>

OK, good idea.

>In general you are headed in the right direction and it looks good.  How
>far do you plan on taking this?  Is your plan to only support fixed
>width fonts in RLIB or were you thinking about variable width fonts?
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I would like to be able to use any fonts I can find on the system in RLIB
and any codepage.

Best regards,
Zolt=C3=A1n B=C3=B6sz=C3=B6rm=C3=A9nyi