Re: ps/tt fonts in gnome apps

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

Has a request for this functionality been made to the XFree86 people?
The lack of the functionality makes it harder to run lots of apps that
can share fonts (there is not standard set of fonts that applications
can expect will be on most user machines), means that users of these
applications get a larger chunk of their disk drives eaten by font
storage and makes it harder to do WYSIWYG printing.

Off Topic:

why is X such a memory hog?  It seems to me that
there should be an alternate implementation that presumes a "desktop"
application environment.  Since the mass market out there is not a 
simultaneous multiuser crowd, it would be helpful if Linux had a 
lighter-weight windowing/graphics system.  I hope this isn't flame
bait.  I don't intend it to be.

All the best,
	Miles

James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> Because even though X may use scalable fonts internally, there is no way
> to get at them from the application -- all the X protocols are in terms of
> bitmap representation of the glyphs.  This is OK for screen display, but
> not for printing on arbitrary resolution printers.
> 
> The different apps solve the problem in different ways.  Gnumeric uses the
> gnome-print package, and abiword uses its own system.
> 
> If there was a method of getting the vector representation of the glyphs
> from the X server, then those applications could probably be modified to
> use it.
> 
> James.
> 
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> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Nathan Clegg wrote:
> 
> > Why is it that gnumeric, abiword, and other such applications have their
> > own special set of fonts, rather than using the postscript and truetype
> > fonts I use in X (and gimp, for that matter)?
> >
> >
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