Re: benchmarks? and fonts?

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Rémi Arnaud (remi++at++remi.asd.sgi.com)
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:24:39 -0800 (PST)

Davey, Matthew J. wrote:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> Can you please help me?
>
> I have been tasked to port some code to a WindowsNT machine with PCI
> card running OpenGL. My knowledge in these areas is rudimentary - at
> best. Maybe I should be embarrassed about my ignorance, but ... at
> least I am aware. :)
>
> Does there exist some intelligence about performance benchmarks on
> various graphics cards supporting OpenGL?

 Does it have anything to do with Performer ?
 Oh well .....

 viewperf is the current benchmark for openGL. It has been developped by IBM
 Look at http://www.specbench.org/gpc/index.html for more info.
 There is an official opengl perf bench that should be available in april 97.

> My customer has specific fonts to be displayed as part of this system.
> These are custom designed fonts. Is this a problem with OpenGL? With
> OpenGL, how can I use a 'bit-map defined' font ... overlay such that
> just character is display ... background shown through ?

 man glcRenderString to render a string
 man glcAppendFont and glXUseXFont to use different fonts.
 Note, I'm not sure if any of this exist on PC.

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