> One possible approach I've considered is having the client
> application provide an X font server to serve its own fonts, the
> sole purpose being to allow them to be cached on the server side.
> The same thing can be done with serverside bitmaps/pixmaps however
> and it's probably less disgusting that way.
This is the X Rendering Extension using the Xft library, AFAIK.
> You simply can't get good 8x16 glyphs out of an outline font... and
> if you're just going to have bitmap why bother with the whole big
> truetype framework?
Not the TrueType framework, but the SFNT container format is useful
even for bitmapped fonts.
Werner
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