While I see that there are good reasons for creating a proper XP
PS engine, what I am really after at the moment is to be able to
print out my documents on the same machine where I create them.
I have been looking at our (Unix) PS code and have made the
following observations:
(1) we only need the afm files to get the ascent and descent of a
font and the character widths. All three of these are readily
available from the X font server, the former two as XFontStruct-
>ascend, XFontStruct->descend, the third as XCharStruct->width.
The only other thing that we retrieve from the file, if I am not
mistaken, is fontname, which we can easily provide as well.
The best thing to do is, I think, to modify
xap_UnixFont::getMetricsData(), so that if it cannot find the afm
file, it would get the information from the X font server.
Tomas
