On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 00:16 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > Does all text in gtk/pango get sent to the X server as ascii, or are bitmaps > sent too? If sent as ascii, is it 7-bit, 8-bit, or something longer? > Does gtk have any control over what renders the fonts at the X server? > Is XDrawString used?
When rendering using Xft or (for in GTK+-2.7, Cairo), characters are rendered client side and sent to the server as images. Then a RenderCompositeGlyphs request is made to draw those images to the screen. It looks conceptually like: Using glyphset 1432413: draw glyph #3 at 40,10 draw glyph #4 at 50,10 [...] Regards, Owen
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