Re: Type1 fonts...
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> > I'm not sure if that can be avoided - I'm not aware of a common "font
> > service" for X, gs etc. Possibly it could work similiar to the "menu" or
> > "doc-base" systems: font-providing packages register their fonts with a
> > centralised system, and font-using packages implement a way to use the font
> > registered in this way. Such a system would IMO need to be broader than just
> > type 1, and cover general PostScript and TrueType fonts at the minimum.
> Yes, that's what I was trying to ask about. :)
> So there's only thing left: to find somebody who would code the stuff. :)
Perhaps another possible usage for the datapackages I suggested. (If there
was such a system yet, we only had to add an new classification font
and an new type for each fonttype - and font-servers to contact the
"database" of cause.) But as this - if it is ever
supposed to be worth coding - will last a very long time, a separate
system for Fonts would be much better.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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