twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) (10/14/86)
The implementation of GKS I am using behaves as follows:
1. If I request a HARDWARE font before any other fonts - I get
the correct font.
2. If I request a SOFTWARE font anytime - I get the correct
font.
-----> 3. If I request a HARDWARE font, after a SOFTWARE font, and
request other than STRING precision - I get a SOFTWARE
font. I'd rather have the HARDWARE font and char
precision.
The reasoning behind #3 seems to be that since a hardware font can't be
clipped to stroke or char. precision and a software font is available --
the software font is used.
I don't understand why a hardware font can't be clipped to char
precision - although it may mean the device driver must plot one char at
a time in this case (too bad :-).
This is a hassle for me because I need to check which font has been
requested (by a user) before I can specify the precision.
It would be much preferable to have GKS determine if the requested font
could be clipped as requested and if not then use a more restrictive clip.
(i.e. demote stroke to char and char to string as needed)
Comments? (Did I have to ask? :-)
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T.W. Beattie
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