Use show instead of glyphshow: gylphshow very slow on kyocera

[Wolfgang Walter]

Hello,

wineps.drv uses the postscript operator glyphshow to print glyphs. This 
operator is very slow on all Kyocera postscript printers. To get an idea: its 
generally only 1/6 to 1/10 of the performance compared to the same document 
printed with the windows xp postscript driver (which does not use glyphsow).

I wrote an email hier where I proposed a patch. This patch changes wineps.drv 
such that it uses the show operator for downloaded fonts (type1 and type42).

This change is not trivial as the show operator (and its relatives xshow, 
yshow, xyshow) operates on character codes and not on glyhpnames. So 
wineps.drv must generate postscript code define an appropriate encoding.

As a font may only have up to 256 characters encoded and as it is not allowed 
to modify the encoding once defined the font must be cloned if more then 256 
characters are used. This is inexpensive, though, as actually all resources 
but the encoding array are shared.

See the patch my earlier mail for a more detailed explanation.

This modification brings the performance of the postscript code generated by 
wine up to windows' postscript driver (if no clipping region is defined - 
another problem). I tested it on a wide range of kyocera printer models and 
two hp models. Of course I tested it with ghostscript.

I would appreciate any comments and ideas.

Regards,
-- 
Wolfgang Walter
Studentenwerk München
Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts
Leiter EDV
Leopoldstraße 15
80802 München