Re: [9fans] P9P font server

[Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de>]

I was aware of that. But freetype2 exists for Plan 9, it's used in
ttf2subf. Probably a lot of the code from the X11 version could be reused.

Am 14.12.2013 12:23, schrieb Pavel Zholkover:
> Well it's not that simple, the X11 version uses freetype2 and fontconfig
> to read/render TrueType fonts..
> The OS X is probably doing something similar with Apple's APIs
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> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Friedrich Psiorz <f.psiorz@gmx.de
> <mailto:f.psiorz@gmx.de>> wrote:
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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.
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>     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.
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>     ~Fritz
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>     Am 12.12.2013 <tel:12.12.2013> 12:45, schrieb lucio@proxima.alt.za
>     <mailto: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.
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>     > 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.
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