Re: RFC: Idea of Debian Font Manager
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Yasuhiro TAKE's letter:
> At Fri, 09 Feb 2001 00:38:09 +0900,
> Yasuhiro TAKE wrote:
>
> > The current one *BIG* problem of Font Manager is that it is too slow for
> > actual use. 500MHz Pentium or higher CPU is strongly recommended.
> > I guess this is caused by calling configuration scripts and programs of
> > Font Manager again and again for child (or grandchild, or grand-grandchild
> > ...) processes, which then causes a lot of file accessing.
> > I belieave this problem would be sloved when i rewrite all codes in perl
> > and unify all of the codes into one program, rewrite configuration
> > scripts in perl library style, and make all the Font Management process
> > in single task, on memory.
>
> I just built 0.2.0 version of defoma, defoma-ps and defoma-gs.
> All codes are written in perl and everything is done on memory in a single
> task. These changes result in a drastic speed up. It may be useful
> for ghostscript users who have CJK TrueType fonts or CIDFonts, or who
> want to use greek Type1 fonts in ghostscript without troublesome work of
> editting resource files.
very nice. but i urge you to give a look at dtm (in potato or woody)
because it was written in perl and it supports nicities like font
aliases, font priorities and other little goodies. as i said i don't
have the time to support dtm, but it was, imho, pretty well designed.
(it was able to generate config files for ghostscript and X11, some
preliminary support for TeX, but that's a pretty difficult thing.)
ciao,
federico
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