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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: Banish 'font not found' errors forever!
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Date: 6 Dec 89 18:37:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: dwig@ingr.com's message of 5 Dec 89 22:10:17 GMT


I myself would LOVE to see this change implemented, even if only as an
extension.

At the same time, it would be nice to implement a general RLE font
format, e.g. something like the PK packing used for TeX fonts.  This
would reduce the transmission I/O time for the server and save oddles
of disk space. From my understanding, a machine-independent font
format has been proposed for X11R4, but it only stores information
about byte order, etc - it doesn't compact anything. A compact, machine
independent storage format is really needed.