Re: Glyph Bitmap Caching in FreeType

[David Turner]

Hi again,

"Feinberg, Matthew" a écrit :
> 
> I know that FreeType 1.x doesn't do any caching of glyph bitmaps.
> 
> However, I understand that FreeType 2 will be able to render strings of
> text rather than just individual glyphs.  If this is the case, does
> FreeType 2 have some mechanism for caching glyph bitmaps, or does it at
> least provide hooks so that the application may cache bitmaps?  Or am I
> completely missing something major here...?
> 
Actually, FreeType 2 itself will not be able to render string of texts,
as it will still be a "font service". However, we'll very much probably
provide some optional components in order to perform the following:

  - glyph caching
  - advanced text layout (possibly through OpenType Layout)

It will be up to the client application to use these additional services
to render text..

Hope it's clear :-)

- David

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