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From: jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A wish for R5 [was XDrawBitmap, now font server comment]
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Date: 9 May 91 16:16:09 GMT
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    > Or, allowing clients to download fonts would also suffice for this
    > purpose.
    
    I got the impression from Jim Getty's talk at the X conference last
    January that R5 will contain much-improved font mechanisms that are
    capable of addressing this desire.  I certainly hope so.

It won't exactly do this (i.e. it isn't a "a create a font on the fly"
extension to X), although it should go a good way towards making private
fonts either to deal with.  The ideal solution is always to have applications
be installed properly.  But, failing that, an application could start up
another instance of the font server that provided the necessary fonts.  Then
it would just add this font server to the X font path.

Folks who are interested in obtaining more information should retreive
the X Font Server Protocol specification by:

     o	ftp from export.lcs.mit.edu as /pub/DOCS/fonts/fontserver.text

     o	an email message to xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu with a subject line of
	"send docs fontserver.text".


Jim [Fulton]