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Re: Why are so many people using font servers?



On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 10:27, John Hasler wrote:
> Rob Weir writes:
> > Why is this?  XFree86 has been able to handle TrueType fonts (along with
> > Type1, bitmap, etc) directly since version 4, so what's up?
> 
> Many of us find fonts insanely complex and completely incomprehensible.  We
> just bang away at it until something works and then stop.

And most HOWTOs were written back before v4...

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