On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:10:16PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > > I have however other problems with ttf fonts - they are > > EXTREMELY slow. When I use arialuni.ttf (25MB font with the best > > unicode coverage) as main font in konqueror, just drawing a page > > in ASCII takes 2 minutes (PIII 600 MHz). During those 2 > > minutes, X are unresponding, I cannot even switch to the console. > > Using fontserver at least allows me to switch to the console, > > and using -deferglyphs all helped a bit, but really only a bit. > > Use the xfs-xtt font server (which does well with really big fonts, unlike > the xfsft crap), do not allow the X server to touch such heavy fonts. Also,
No big change in this regard (maybe a tad faster, but not much). However, there was one noticeable change (may be a bug in konqueror though): with xfs-xtt, konqueror stretches pages vertically by a factor of something like 100 times ! So you have heading, then several tens of blank pages, then first paragraph, then several blank pages etc... > setting deferglyphs=16 in both the X server and the font server might save > you a lot of grief. I have deferglyphs=all > > > mode and console unusable. This does not seem to happen when I limit > > myself to non-UCS fonts. > > Well, the UCS codepath is not as widely used and tested as the ISO-8859 > ones; and CJK fonts (as well as unicode fonts, obviously) sometimes make > very have usage of features of the ttf spec that "easy" fonts will not > touch... > > I repeat: do not allow the X server to even touch ttf fonts, or you risk > crashes. Use the xfs-xtt font server instead (at least, when it crashes, it ok, I removed references to freetype module from xfree86config and I will see if it helps (but, path to font server was at the beginning, so I guess X was not getting to the fonts) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
