Hi Developers, Probably this message belongs to the improve-list, but anyway...
As many of you have already noticed, one of the areas of interest for me in computer programming are vector graphics. If my memory serves well, RunRev is planning for a future version of the engine include antialiased vector graphics and i hope that they include a font engine rendering (to have kerning pairs and justified text as well). Could the inclusion of both technologies (antialiased vectors and rendering font engine) in the engine, bring the total size of the single executable engine to more than 2 megabytes??? I'm asking this because just today, i had become aware of the four times size increase of the Macromedia Flash plug-in for web browser: <http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14266> >From 103k to 588k... and i'm almost sure that much of these 483k increase come from the addition of Scripting to the swf format. But they have nice antialiased vector and font rendering since the beginning at only 103k... Could this means that in 200k or less, RunRev could add this capability to the engine???? Looking in the web, i found these websites about font rendering engines and antialiased graphics: <http://www.typesolutions.com/> "The source for the best font engine and font rasterizer technology!" Founded in 1989 by Sampo Kaasila, lead engineer behind the TrueType technology while at Apple Computer, Inc. This is wholly-owned subsidiary of Bitstream Inc. <http://www.freetype.org/index2.html> FreeType 2 is a GLP software font engine small, efficient, highly customizable and portable. <http://www.d-type.com/> Portable, high-performance and high-quality scalable font engine for smooth (anti-aliased) text If had to choose between antialised graphics and a font rendering engine, my choice is obvious: the font rendering engine... ;-) al ===== Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution