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Stardraw.com Announces Enhanced Text Engine
The Stardraw development team has been particularly busy in recent months and has published several key enhancements to their family of design and documentation software tools, currently comprising Stardraw Audio, Stardraw A/V and Stardraw A/V Lite.
A completely rewritten and optimized text engine bolsters existing functionality with improved text smoothing, definition and performance. This leads to greatly enhanced legibility both on screen and in print, as well as considerably faster on-screen rendering. In the most extreme test, a document containing over 35,000 lines of text exhibited a worst-case screen redraw time on a PIII @ 1.2GHz of around 7 seconds using the old text engine. The new engine reduced this redraw time to less than 0.2 seconds - a remarkable achievement.
In terms of on-screen legibility, the old text engine required a text-display height of at least 11 pixels to render the Arial font legible, however 'jagginess' or 'blockiness' at small display heights was sometimes an issue. The new engine requires a height of only 7 pixels for perfect, smooth text rendering. In practice this represents a quantum leap in perceived quality.
Throughout its 13-year history, the Stardraw drawing engine has always been highly regarded for its speed, power and flexibility. With the radical improvements in text introduced this month Stardraw.com believes it will surprise and delight even their most enthusiastic users.
8th August 2005
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