AFA OS 4.3

[Damion]

Question:

On 68k systems, are there advantages to using AFA_OS truetype setup over ttf.library?

[Damion]

Just to answer my own question:

With ttf.library, truetype fonts are rendered very fast, the freetype setup with afa is quite slow on 68k but allows for anti-aliasing.

[Damion]

Then perhaps it's this feature that makes it slower? Or is it still slower if you disable anti-aliasing and contrast from the AFA_prefs?

Measured with the included "textbench" program, it's still much slower even with aa turned off.

i think that it would be better for you to PM an AROS developer or open a thread about this.

I may when I get time to play again. It's noted in the docs that the text rendering is still slow/unoptimized, so maybe there will be some improvements. (Though skins and aa text is probably a bit much for the 'ol A2K, anyhow. :lol:)