Re: Rant (Was Re: printing in gnome port)


Subject: Re: Rant (Was Re: printing in gnome port)
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 01:12:15 CST


paul> Is there some usage scenario where X provides access to display
paul> fonts, but does so in a way which makes it impossible for the
paul> AbiWord process to locate the corresponding raw font files? I
paul> can think of two cases:

Isn't that the basic scenario of having the X display (server) on a
different machine from the client? Doesn't X use the fonts the server
can find (via the local filesystem or a font server)? In such cases,
the client can only find out what the X server is willing to tell it.

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