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From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: A wish for R5
Message-ID: <1991May8.234851.576@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 23:48:51 GMT
Sender: Paul Vojta <vojta@math.berkeley.edu>
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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I hope it's not too late to suggest something, but it would be very helpful
(at least for xdvi and the like) to have another X call for putting bitmaps.
Quoting from the man page for XDrawString,

	"the drawable is only modified where the font character
	 has a bit set to 1."

What I am suggesting would be an XDrawBitmap() call to provide the same
functionality for drawing bitmaps.

Or, allowing clients to download fonts would also suffice for this purpose.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu