🚀 go-pugleaf

Matthew Dillon writes
>In article <1992Sep12.224836.17946@next.cambridge.ma.us>  
simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
>>Don't use the PS wraps for fonts; use the Font class.  It's  much  
faster.
>>
>>	id	aFont = [Font newFont:"Times-Roman" size:12.0];
>>
>>	[aFont set];
>>	PSmoveto(323,321)
>>	PSshow("foobar");
>>
>>to change the size, use:
>>
>>	aFont = [Font newFont:[aFont name] size:aNewSize];
>
>    Don't you want to free the old aFont ?
>
>					-Matt
>
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DON'T free Font objects.  Notice the "newFont" instead of "initFont"  
method.  Fonts are shared.  If you ask for a Times-Roman 12 point font  
again, you'll get the original aFont.

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Mike Ferris
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