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From: casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re: How to Get 90 degree Rotated Fonts?
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Date: 8 Oct 90 04:58:59 GMT
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/ From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
| 
| 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.

  I sure hope so.  There are times when a particular application has need for a specific glyph set peculiar to itself and it seems unnecessarily complex to
require either that the font be loaded into a well known font server or that
the application have to become a font server itself.

  Actually, if the overhead for that second option were made small enough I
probably wouldn't object.  By "overhead" I mean application coding and
installation and administration primarily.  For instance, requiring that a
database of all potential font servers be maintained wouldn't not be nice.  A
dynamic mechanism where the application simply registers itself as a font server
would be much nicer.

  There are still of course the questions of how long application font servers
stay registered, does the display server promiscuously use application font
servers to try to satisfy font needs from other clients or would the application
font server only be used for windows associated with the application?  And
would the font service be associated with a specific instantiation of an
application or all currently running instantiations of an application?

  I don't envy you your task.

Casey