Jesper L. Nielsen wrote: > On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Robert Kerr wrote: [...] > Anyway, I did my research the hard way: Looking through a lot of > source code :) The conclusion I have now reached is that Fontconfig is > not designed for embedded system (no one claimed it would be though) > because it's way to CPU intensive when searching for fonts to use > (basically, the Font Family to real font-file transition). Do you have any numbers? If you don't have many fonts, it can't be slow. And I'm working on making it much faster as we speak. > At the > moment I'm looking at taking out Fontconfig from Pango, but > unfortunately their are tightly bound together in the Pango sourcecode. That makes little sense. > After reading the replies to your email, I'm wondering if Cairo would > be the right way to go for me to? Cairo doesn't do any internationalization. It buys you nothing, text-wise. And it requires fontconfig still. > Anyway I don't know much about VTK besides what I could Google. > However I think Fontconfig is best used on Desktop system, where the > user would like to change between a lot of fonts, and deals with many > different resolutions. I disagree. Fontconfig is in use on many embedded systems already. > Hope you can use the feedback, and I'll be happy to share further > Fontconfig findings with you :) behdad _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
