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From: creubank@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: bezier curves
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Date: 16 Feb 89 16:29:22 GMT
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(This letter got bounced when I sent it to xpert from
media-lab.media.mit.edu, so I'm trying again from athena.)
>I'm interested in outputting bezier curves in X for part of my thesis.
>I thought I would have to do all of the coding myself, but I noticed the
>following file:  /usr/include/X11/bezier.h -- does X support bezier splines?
>How can I find out more about this?

I sent this to olc and was pointed here.  Does the current X (X11R3)
support this?  I am writing a chinese text/character/stroke editor
using X for my undergraduate thesis and need splines for the strokes.
I am willing to write the bezier routines, but if they already exist
I'd like to know.  Another question: X supports 16-bit fonts (i.e.
each character is indexed by two bytes).  Does this mean I can have a
font with 65536 different characters?  I am not sure whether I should
define my characters as splines or as a bitmapped Xfont for screen
display.  Splines would allow resizing, but might be just too slow.
I WILL be using the splines for my postscript output, anyway.  It
seems like a lot of work to build an Xfont from scratch, though.  Of
course, I would not actually hand paint the bitmaps.  They would be
generated from a spline description.  Any ideas?

                                -creubank