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- From: wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Fred Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: fonts when server differs
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 15:00:28 GMT
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- Excerpts from mail: 2-Sep-92 Re: fonts when server differs Zalman
- Stern@mv.us.adobe (1319)
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- the performance of font operations may be significantly better than pixmaps.
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- I should have pointed out that I was not refering so much to sending
- entire fonts for Andrew applications as to sending the few special
- symbols that some applications want. For instance the standard arrow
- cursor and scrollbar symbols. In many cases these are used as cursors,
- so it is reasonable to have them in pixmaps anyway.
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- Having a general font-download-from-application protocol would clearly
- be preferable to the pixmap scheme.
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- FredH
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