On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:58:41AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:27, 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. > > I would expand on that with the observation that I do own conventional > licenses of some fonts that permit me to install them on *one* computer. Well, that would put you in the atypical 1% I mentioned in my original email :) > I have let the font server here be accessed by certain clients wishing > to view and print documents I have sent them that use those fonts (I > know, that is using a bazooka to hit a gnat,) As I develop a home > network, I would rather have my fonts on one machine and serve them out > on the lan, rather than worrying about having everything everywhere - > and I have most everything on this box - Cyrillic, Arabic, Kanji... Hah, fair enough. This is not what most people are doing, though. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: wire transfer Crowell cybercash Ron Brown SEAL Team 6
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