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Limits of the X11 Interface

A few words about what the X11 interface can do and cannot do are appropriate, I think. Except for that a few global variables of t1lib are accessible, the whole code of the X11 interface could as well be part of an application instead of being part of t1lib. In other words, t1lib is not able to do anything an application program could not do. This applies especially to performance improvements. Unfortunately--but consequently, the X11 rastering functions are not faster than the standard rastering functions.

To come to a conclusion, this is what the X rastering functions offer to the user:

And here is what they not provide: That's life, folks.


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2004-10-04