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Re: Why are so many people using font servers?



On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:52:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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...

Hmm, that's a good point...Perhaps we need a new one?

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