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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: How to Get 90 degree Rotated Fonts?
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Date: 8 Oct 90 00:07:38 GMT
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   [ yeep, XPutFontBitmap would be much better, but there just ain't one,
     and the MIT guys don't like it, they want something really big and
     ugly - called "font server" ].

I used to think a font server might be sufficient for this, but no longer.
I think some form of font downloading is desirable, although I'm not sure
what the best form is.  The font server solves a different, but also
important problem, and it need be neither "big" nor "ugly".  Right now
resources within the Consortium are focused on the font server, because
the people involved feel it is a more important problem to solve.  I hope
that we will eventually find the resources to work on font downloading.