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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:26:59 +0100
From: Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] P9P font server
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I would really like to have fontsrv in native Plan 9. It's nice to be
able to simply download a font or copy it from a unix system and use it
without going through conversion. It would also de-facto introduce a
usable interface to rendering ttf fonts on the fly. This could be a nice
feature in many applications, e.g. abaco or document viewers.
Even for simple conversion, it would be a much nicer interface than
ttf2subf.

I don't think you would have to change anything about the surrounding
system ... isn't that the whole point for fontsrv? If I didn't
misunderstand, it's just a virtual file system that converts ttf fonts
to the Plan 9 pixel font format transparently.

~Fritz

Am 12.12.2013 12:45, schrieb lucio@proxima.alt.za:
> I didn't pay any attention to p9p's fontsrv (sorry, Andrey!  It was
> you that got that off the ground, wasn't it?) until this morning's
> discussion, but it struck me as a very neat solution for a problem
> that has been bugging me for a long time: avoiding the time consuming
> repeated installation of Plan 9 fonts.  Specifically, p9p itself and
> local instances of 9vx could be smaller and the installation (and
> download, in most cases) would be quicker.
>
> The question then becomes whether fontsrv could be "ported" to Plan 9
> together with the supporting facilities (openfont(2) is my guess)?  I
> certainly would be willing to give such port a try, if I can be
> convinced that it is not beyond my ability.
>
> ++L
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