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>G´day
>
>Just downloaded the latest version and WOW!! what did you do to it?? The
>speed
>is great, click on the advance page and it´s instant change.
Funny thing is, I figured the slow text was that the freetype engine was
slow, and that I needed to implement a character cache like we have on the
Amiga (freetype includes a beta cache system, but it is incomplete and I
couldn't get it to work). So I spent a day building a nice cache system.
(actually closer to two days reworking things so they fit into the scheme)
and guess what? It made a 72 second display take 70 seconds. Hardly worth it!
As it turns out, I initially had created a _font_ cache back when I first
added text support. That font cache was not working properly and it was
reinitializing the font system for each character. Once I made a simple one
line fix, text became useable 
I think I left the character cache in, but it doesn't appear to make much
difference. Timing trials showed a minor improvement, but on other systems
it might make a difference.
>Problem, output to postscript, either file or direct to printer is failing to
>include font descriptions so defaults to courier. Doesn´t look pretty!!
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>
>--
>Ken
Deron Kazmaier - support@grasshopperllc.com
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.grasshopperllc.com
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows
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