[GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m

[Michael Barton]

We don't restart d.mon gism for each layer, but d.font romans and d.frame -e
is run each time due to driver issues.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 02:22:16 +0100
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, <grassuser at grass.itc.it>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Freetype fonts in gis.m
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>> 2. gis.m provides no guarantees as to the order in which layers are
>>> rendered. If a command changes the font, whether other commands use
>>> the default font or the changed font depends upon the order in which
>>> the commands are executed.
>> 
>> The layers are always rendered and composited in bottom to top order in
>> gis.m.
>> 
>> Between each layer rendering, it is necessary to run a d.font command or no
>> text will render. Currently this defaults to d.font romans. It could be set
>> to a variable which, in turn, could be set by d.font.text or
>> d.font.freetype.
> 
> You're still restarting the driver for every layer?
> 
> Whilst inefficient, that does at least simplify the font issue.
> 
> For now, it's simpler to keep the font handling entirely within gis.m,
> i.e. provide a user option to control the font used at startup
> (ideally, also provide an option to use freetype fonts).
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>