From: Nikolai Grigoriev (grig@renderx.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 12:34:41 PST
Hi Werner,
> I understand from the documentation that the value for these
> properties must be a directory. It would be very interesting
> if URLs were also allowed, because then the files in these
> directories could be loaded as resources, i.e. they could be added
> to the application jar file. This is very important in a J2EE context,
> where resources should not be put in the file system, which is
> a global resource, but instead be part of the enterprise archive.
Than you for the suggestion. It is indeed an important issue.
I confess that it is not easy to satisfy this requirement
in the current architecture: parsing fonts strongly requires
random access to the font file, so the only alternative to file
I/O is to load the whole font into memory. It is doable,
but requires many changes in the code (and may entail
a considerable memory penalty). In any case, we will
keep it present when making plans for the future.
Best regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX
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