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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Banish 'font not found' errors forever!
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Date: 12 Dec 89 13:49:45 GMT
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    Does this mean that the Consortium realizes there is no good, existing
    workaround to the problems I've mentioned?

"The Consortium" as a body has not discussed your message.

    Is the Consortium committed to developing the font server?

The Consortium typically makes progress through the participation of
engineers in its member organizations.  There is considerable interest
in developing a font server.

    When will it be available?

No commitments.

    The sendfont extension allows clients to
    propogate fonts on demand with no intervention by the user.

Well, only sort of.  You must be assuming the entire contents of all those
fonts are embedded in the application, rather than being in files (blech).
Otherwise, finding those files is equivalent to finding a font server.

    Also, applications may want to create fonts on the fly.  Can you do this
    using the font server?

A font server could provide this capability, yes.  The application could
itself become a font server, if it really wanted to.

    We would like to have some kind of support from the Consortium for the
    sendfont idea.  What avenues of cooperation are open?

Progress is made in the X Consortium by having proposals backed and pushed
by member organizations.  You can either join the X Consortium and push the
idea yourself, or find some member who's willing to push it for you.