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From: dwig@b11.ingr.com (David Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Banish 'font not found' errors forever!
Message-ID: <6846@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:42:28 GMT
References: <8912070046.AA14873@kanga.lcs.mit.edu> <6808@b11.ingr.com> <114@eileen.mga.com>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <114@eileen.mga.com>, gjc@mga.COM (George J. Carrette) writes:
> I've been experimenting with NOT USING FONTS AT ALL for some character
> graphics applications. The reason is that I want to be able "download"
> my own custom mathematical fonts. The obvious implementation using
> an off-screen pixel array for your font and copy-pixel operations for
> draw-character and draw-string works well enough on my vaxstation-3100 (VMS).
> 
> -gjc

Are you really satisfied with this?  Isn't it tantalizing to think that your
text drawing could be occuring several times faster if you could only feed
your font to the server?  To us, it was irresistable; thus the sendfont
extension.

David P. Wiggins		uunet!ingr!dwig or dwig@ingr.com
Software Analyst, Intergraph X-Team