- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 15:39:47 EDT
- To: evb@knoware.nl, gtn@ebt.com
- Cc: Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, www-font@w3.org, paul@sgi.com, hoefler@typography.com
Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> wrote: > An alternative to giving away outline fonts, is to use glyph servers > that render an outline font into a bitmap of the size/resolution a > client wants. One could perhaps even charge for creating the bitmap, > though micropayments are still just getting started. Yes. Perhaps the X Font Server could at last come into its own. It's not much good for anything else :-) but the protocol does have the vestages of micropayments in it. They forgot kerning (although Gallium have a font server that adds that) and they made a terrible job of encodings in the sample implementation (don't know if Gallium has fixed that; probably) but it is at least a possible base for experimentation. Of course, you'd also need a font server proxy... and its cache would be an issue for micropayments. Lee -- Liam Quin, SoftQuad Inc | lq-text freely available Unix text retrieval lee@sq.com +1 416 239 4801 | FAQs: Metafont fonts, OPEN LOOK UI, OpenWindows SGML: http://www.sq.com/ |`Consider yourself... one of the family... The barefoot programmer | consider yourself... At Home!' [the Artful Dodger]
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