Re: Font Manager?

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "D" == Dan Newcombe <Newcombe@mordor.clayton.edu> writes:

D>   It seems like a terrible waste to have it in two places.  Font
D> service is a function of the X server (either in the server or via
D> the xfs) and should be left there.

X's font support is limited in several ways.  It only returns bitmaps,
not pixmaps, so there's no way to anti-alias if you go through X.
It's also lacking in all sorts of useful metric information.

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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
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