On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ricky Sharp <rsh...@mac.com> wrote: > The only disadvantage to PDF (or vector-based artwork) is that you'll have > longer initial load times. But, I created an 'image factory' to help me > manage that. I can mark certain images as being 'pre-load' and load them up > during app startup. Remaining are all lazily loaded. And, once in memory, > each is now in bitmap form (you ultimately have an NSBitmapImageRep). So > drawing is always fast.
The OP mentioned he is writing a game. Often times scaling and rotation are important operations. This might cause PDFs to be slow to render during gameplay. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
