Actually, it's not all that hairy. It'll never be as simple as a single
call to drawString() of course. But basically all you have to do make a
loop with drawImage that increments the draw-position.
> ... and I
>doubt that I would get a font that looks as nice as some of the ones I can
>get for free [...]
This is quite true. OTOH, the trade-off here is that most standard Greek
fonts don't handle accents and other diacritical marks very well (if at
all). Drawing the characters and adding the diacriticals "by hand" could
give a lot more flexibility (not mention accuracy).
> ... Of
>course, if I could run a font server on the web server, that would take care
>of the problem, but I don't think my provider would like that.
;-)
>Incidentally, I don't download lots of data at any one time, I pass the data
>as parameters to the applet:
Right, but you still take a hit at code-load time, don't you?
>I have everything working but the fonts...
In any case, good luck. Let us[*] know when you come up with the right
solution.
[* Or at least me. Maybe we should start a B-GEEK mailing list. ;-) ]
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