Markus Kuhn Wrote: >> But every glyph would have to be sent over the wire as a pixmap, every time it's >> drawn. Performance would be so bad, particularly over the wire, that it would >> be as good as broken... or am I missing something? > >It is just what xdvi, acroread, ghostview, and many other text display >tools with client-side font engines have done all the time.
Exactly. >What's the schedule for getting RENDER into the X11 standard and >Sun's X servers? As Keith knows, he will need to bring it to the standards task force for review. Sun will adopt it some time after X.org approves it as a standard extension, probably it the next major release of Solaris after that, or in an update release, if the market requires it. -steve Steve Swales Senior Manager, Platform Globalization Engineering X.Org Chairperson Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2515 North First Street, MS USJC07-201 San Jose, CA 95131 Direct 408 635-0623 Fax 408 635-0670 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
