Cool! Any idea what the ETA for this solution will be? I'm presuming it'll be a while before this capability is developed, much less widely deployed. Paul At 07:22 PM 11/28/99 -0600, Justin Bradford wrote: >This is just an "FYI-post", but it sounds like AbiWord's problems with X's >limited font abilities will be addressed in XFree 4.0. > >Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted the following on the xfree-devel >list: > >> Recall also that one persistant request is that font outline and metric >> information be shared between the X server and the application. There >> are two obvious ways of solving this; either have the X server and >> application share the font files, or extend the existing X Font >> Services Protocol to include additional font data and have the >> application to connect to the font server along with the X server. The >> latter will clearly be required, sharing files would probably be a >> reasonable optimization for the local case. > >I followed that up by asking if the above extensions will provide the >functionality needed for AbiWord, and here is his reply: > >> We're only talking about the display at this point, but yes, the idea is >> to provide enough information to accurately position glyphs on the >> screen, information equivalent to that found in the .afm file. For >> printing, the problem is different as the hard part is knowing what >> fonts the printer provides; if you can map printer fonts back to the >> improved X fonts, then the information provided would be sufficent >> for printing as well. > >Anyway, it sounds to me that 4.0 will allow us to use whatever fonts are >on the system (instead of just the ones distributed with AbiWord). Of >course, it will include a TrueType font server, as well. > >Justin
