Uncle George wrote:
> 6) Java seemed to have tried to get fonts working. They require includes
> from some DPS ( et al ".h" ) files, which are just not available. I also
> dont know what DPS is, but appears to have something to do with
> postscript. It has been edited ( mangled) to compile, and work on a
> stock linux.
Interesting. DPS is Display PostScript, an Adobe-supplied extension to
the X Window System. DPS never really caught on outside of Sun
workstations, probably due to Adobe's typically expensive licensing
terms. Looks like Sun is aiming to leverage that into a more
font-capable Java implementation on their own workstations.
Nathan Meyers
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