Re: Why are so many people using font servers?
On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 12:39, Rob Weir wrote:
> 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?
Probably so. However, since only sarge and some recent Debian-based
distros have defoma, and it does things so differently than standard
XFree, it would have to be distro-specific...
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