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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:28:52 +1030

Font Servers (Re: about XFree 4.0...)

Jake Hawkes wrote:

> back in old days, there used to be a dedicated machine on the network
> that served the fonts to xterms on the network. These xterms were the
> ones you see at some uni, no disk, just video card, ram, keyboard,
> mouse, network.

If you've ever been in a Windows Desktop Publishing Environment, this
makes a lot of sense.. Designers and generally creative types will want
to use a lot of wacky fonts in various areas, and this becomes a major
PITA if you've got multiple PC's editing the same documents. This
problem is compounded because the Windows font system doesn't handle
large numbers of fonts very well, so you can't just load them all on
each machine.

A shared font server is an neat way of avoiding these sorts of problems.

John Edwards

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