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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: downloading fonts
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Date: 31 Dec 88 16:54:44 GMT
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    I couldn't find a way to down-load
    a font from a client to the server.

Correct, the core protocol does not provide a mechanism for this.

    Am I correct in thinking that the fonts have to live on the server?

Yes.

    Do you have to package the fonts as pixmaps & have two display routines,
    one for when you have SNF fonts and one when you have to use pixmaps?

You should be constructing your fonts in BDF format, which is an X standard.
Server vendors will provide compilers to translate BDF to whatever internal
format their particular server desires.