Re: Definitive HOWTO use truetype fonts on a Network
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:30:12PM -0800, Daniel Miller wrote:
> What's the best way to do this? It seems to me using a central XFS type
> font server provides the most efficient X-server displays - but then
> these fonts appear unavailable to OpenOffice.
Correct, because OpenOffice couldn't care less about your X fonts, and uses
fontconfig, which requires a local font repository (I presume you could
mount one via NFS... that would get interesting).
XFS will work fine for sharing X fonts to applications that don't support
fontconfig. I imagine that any local Xft1-using applications will happily
use it as well. It's the Xft2 applications you're going to have a problem
with.
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