jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton) (05/09/91)
> 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]