[Bf-committers] Slowdowns with International Fonts

[John K. Walton]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Charles Wardlaw wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly, I wanted to tip my hat to the bright spark who thought up
> emulation of the num pad with the number keys.  THANK YOU.  You've just
> made blender a thousand times more usable on my laptop.
> 
> On international font slowdowns: I think it's the antialiasing (I hope
> this hasn't already been mentioned), which, incidentally, also does
> strange things to the look of the menus under OSX (I'd send a
> screenshot, but I don't have the capability at the moment).

in an experiment i did, i had antialiases fonts, and not international,
and there was no slowdown. on irix.
 
> I was wondering: is there a way to disable the font antialiasing? 
> Could it be a preference in the userpref buttons under System?
> 
> Another user preference would be the "maximize window" feature on OSX;
> that way users whose hardware and screen res support it can run blender
> full-screen by hitting Control-U after setting things up, while others
> can run at the res they prefer.
> 
> - Charles
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