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From: grunwald@M.CS.UIUC.EDU (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: downloading fonts
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Date: 31 Dec 88 19:14:58 GMT
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Hi,
	The reason I was asking was that I'm re-vamping TeXx, and wanted
to cache the shrunken glyphs. This would make things faster, and it also
allows me to rationalize the cost of an anti-aliasing method.

	Right now, I have a program that converts a PXL/GF/PK font to
SNF format, modelled after the code in `bdftosnf'. I wasn't certain
about the cost of Metafont -> BDF -> SNF. Perhaps that's a better way to do it.

	The intent is that these fonts get generated `on the fly', and stored
somewhere (/tmp, /usr/tmp) where they occasionally get cleaned up. The first
time you use one, it's slower than the method, but once fonts are generated,
it should be much faster.

	I wanted to use fonts because this can greatly reduce the number
of server calls (because I'll be able to use ``drawstring'' a lot of the time).

Dirk Grunwald
Univ. of Illinois
grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu