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by George Vlahakis :: Rate this Message:

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Thanks to everyone's contribution to my original question.

Here's another font related question:

Is it possible to use gray8 adaptor and perform matrix transformations? I used to convert to curves or contour first and then matrix transform that but with the adaptor I don't see such option.



-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@...]
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:20 PM
To: Anti-Grain Geometry
Subject: Re: [AGG] GDI+ Font Rendering

:-))

2009/3/15 Petr Kobalíček <kobalicek.petr@...>:

> Hi Pierre,
>
> I think that DIBs have no hardware acceleration at all, so we can
> compare software implementations ;-)
>
> I think that blitjit will beat all of those ;-)
>
> Cheers
> - Petr
>
> 2009/3/15 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@...>:
>> hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Petr Kobalíček
>> <kobalicek.petr@...> wrote:
>>
>>> I readed some time document that shows that GDI+ text rendering is
>>> slower than pure GDI text rendering. I not remember article address,
>>> but I think that if you want really fast text renderer, use pure GDI
>>> or write you own text blitter using SSE2.
>>>
>>> GDI text rendering is also not too fast (it's probably implemented in
>>> pure C without MMX/SSE).
>>
>> As far as I remember, GDI+ is mostly software only, GDI has some
>> hardware acceleration (do not know which :).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Pierre
>>
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