On 14-07-09 08:29 AM, György Kövesdi wrote: > Hi, > > I have a multi-platform project which needs software rendering of > graphical primitives (lines, circles, etc) and international text into > memory pixmaps. > Pango seems to be a good choice for this purpose, and it works perfectly > for me on some different Linux platforms, including embedded devices. > Recently I ported it to Android (based on > http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/android-libs ) and it works fine, > except that the initialization time is 2 minutes (!) on my fastest > device (1.7 GHz CPU). According to debug results, the fontconfig > initialization is guilty. It makes the application completely unusable, > however, the rendering speed is perfect (after the initialization has > been completed). > > Any ideas would be appreciated to resolve this problem.
Try fontconfig from master. It should be significantly faster. I also have an experimental patch that is not good enough for merging, but should be good enough for you to use. Please report your findings. Patch attached here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64766#c31 Also, if you can configure fontconfig to cache the fonts on the device, that should make it fast to start up subsequently. > My questions are: > > - Is it possible to use the Android built-in Java-based font rendering? > IMHO it would be the better solution. I found some articles about it on > the net, but could not find real solution. Using Android text rendering from an Android app? Yes, I'm sure it's possible :). From a native app? I don't know. > - Can I use other font-render backends for Pango? You can't use CoreText and Win32, so you are left with fontconfig one, unless you are willing to write a new one. > - Is there any similar solution other than Pango? There's no other full solution that I know of. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
