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From: marbru@auto-trol.com (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A wish for R5
Keywords: XCopyPlane
Message-ID: <1991May10.162648.16474@auto-trol.com>
Date: 10 May 91 16:26:48 GMT
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In article <6922@acorn.co.uk> john@acorn.co.uk (John Bowler) writes:
>In article <1991May8.234851.576@agate.berkeley.edu> vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>>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.
>
>Use XCopyPlane twice with the bitmap as the source.  The first time use the
>....
   I'd try to use area fill with the "font" bitmap as a STIPPLE MASK
   - it would be a single drawing op, though the efficiency depends
     upon the server .....

>>Or, allowing clients to download fonts would also suffice for this purpose.
>
>And be more efficient when the operation really does correspond to a set of
>glyphs... as in xdvi.  IMHO it would also be better than using font servers;
>part of the problem for an application installing a font is dealing with
>the services which do the installation (currently a font compiler and a font
>path set operation, but possibly in the future a font server).  A protocol
>extension is probably no more complex than the extensions to handle the font
>server (in both the X server and for a new font server ``protocol''), and
>could be very easy to use:-
>
    Yep, I asked for this one so many times .... but I was always told
    that the "font server" will cure all my needs (and more).
    I don't buy it. IMHO the font server will create about as many
    problems as it will solve (though I am not oposed to the font
    server concept, I think the font downloading extension is still needed).



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