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From: ct%computing.bradford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (C.Tobin)
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Subject: Re: Font name caching in suntools
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Date: 16 Jun 89 14:06:37 GMT
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In Sun-Spots Digest, v8n33 [Windows],Roy Smith (roy%phri@uunet.uu.net) says

> This may be a nice efficiency hack, but it's not documented anywhere (that
> I can tell).

Whilst it may not be immediately applicable, the caching of and need for
explicitly opening your own font which has an otherwise system used name
is documented in Chapter 4 of the Pixrect Reference Manual. In my copy
which is Revision A dated 9th May 1988 for Sun-OS Version 4, that's on
Page 44. It is however talking about pf_open() and pf_open_private(),
which would obviously have to be used from within your own program.

Chris Tobin (ct@uk.ac.bradford.computing)
Department of Computing
University of Bradford
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