Kieth (sic) cuts the Gordian knot.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/summit.html

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Kieth Packard of the XFree86 project offered a presentation on fonts.
The problems are many, but essentially, you need all the same fonts, or
a good substitution, available in all of: 

               PDF 
               Applications 
               Display 
               Printer 
               Web 

Kieth instantly solved one facet of the problem by asserting that the X
server will in the future no longer handle fonts itself - ie, end of
problem. Instead, the application will handle fonts, and send
selected glyphs up to the server. The overhead is evidently minor for
western languages, and it's a wash for Asian languages. Since this
eliminated the age-old problem of X fonts being unavailable on
particular servers, no one had any particular objection. As always in X,
client library APIs will be extended and compatibility code written, so
the world should really be a better place for this change.


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