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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!gateway!miki!oj
- From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
- Subject: Re: How to get rasterized outline fonts in a window?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.174115.1994@miki.pictel.com>
- Organization: PictureTel Corporation
- References: <1992Aug20.165540.20980@cimlinc.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:41:15 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <1992Aug20.165540.20980@cimlinc.uucp> bharper@cimlinc.uucp (Brett Harper) writes:
- >I would like to render outline style fonts
- >to a window. I have the rasterizer but have no efficient way to get
- >the resultant bitmap into the window. How is this usually done?
-
- XPutImage. Take a look at the Xlib source for a routine like
- XCreateBitmapFromData.
-
- >(BTW: The application makes HEAVY use of text.)
-
- Frame Maker works this way, and works quite well.
-
- >Does X11R5 provide a server side renderer that takes care of this problem?
-
- Yes, R5 can render from Bitstream Speedo and PostScript Type 1 outlines.
-