tlug: Xatm -- comments?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com> writes:

    Chris> A couple of Japanese engineers put together an extension
    Chris> to X that renders truetype fonts.  The arrangement looks
    Chris> like this:

,--------.       ,------.
|client 1| ----> |      |       ,-------.         ,-----------.
`--------'       |  X   | ----> | Xatm- | <=====> |ghostscpipt|
 ________        |Server|       |   xfs |         `-----------'  
|client 2| ----> |      |       `-------'
`--------'       `------'

(1) Yes!  Get as much of that crap out of the server itself as
possible.  At least until it's stable and very fast.  Rendering
multiple Japanese fonts takes far too long, it really kills startup on 
say XEmacs.

(2) Ghostscript is not a client here, but functions as a server to
xfs?  That's weird....

(3) What's wrong with the freetype stuff?  Eg, xfs-tt.  Does
ghostscript do that much better a job?  Are there licensing
encumbrances?

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