Around 10 o'clock on Dec 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Excellent idea. Can we also coordinate with the major applications > groups to reach a consensus on font management? The underlying font > management goal should be to reach the same ease of use that is > presently achieved in the Windows world. I'm certainly trying to get their input. Qt and Gtk+ will both use Xft, and I'm talking to the Mozilla folks as well. I need to tackle Raph to see if we can't get some buy-in from Ghostscript and then go take a look at TeX as well. I don't know what the OpenOffice folks are doing, but presumably they'll work with the Gnome folks at some point. > Moving this outside the server gives us a better chance of proper > support for the more difficult languages. That's my goal; eliminate the reason to use server-side fonts for any output and concentrate on making client-side fonts as capable as possible. The most important feature is that future improvements will not be so severely handicapped by requirements to not change the X server -- I think the Render extension provides the foundation for any number of future experiments with text output. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team Compaq Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
