On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Shigeru Miyata wrote: > I guess you are trying to scale a bitmap font. On my machine with > Pentium 75MHz > and 80MB RAM, it can take several minutes just to load a single Japanese > font > if it is a BDF and the requested size differ from the original one. > Scaling a > TrueType font is much faster (a few seconds). > Also check if your font server supports deferglyphs option or something > similar. > With deferglyphs option turned on, a CJK font is internally divided into > dozens > of chunks each contains 256 or so glyphs and only the required pieces > are loaded, > while without this option all glyphs in the font are loaded once when > the font > is opened.
Hm... I see. Then what can be your suggestion to resolve the problem, Miyata ? Remember that the environment setting in Angus machine should be quite standard with western locale. I also would like to point out that my implementation on XDrawString -> XmbDrawString is very incomplete, and this might be another cause of the problem. To introduce XmbDrawString, I adopted the minimal way. That is, wherever I need to change XDrawString->XmbDrawString, I introduce XFontSet with XCreateFontSet, by not touching any part in lib/fonts.c in xforms source. So it is not a complete i18n, but a little bit of emulating it, isn't it? Do you have any comments, or suggestion? Regards, cghan
