Re: tlug: Xatm -- comments?

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Yes!  Get as much of that crap out of the server itself as possible.

Agreed in principle.  gs ain't exactly a speed daemon, however.

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

Just being used as a rasterizer, I think, which makes the diagram somewhat
wrong. I'm looking over the code as I write this -- I suspect that each
ttf is being broken down into something ps-ish, run through gs, then
provided via xfs.  If so, the performance is going to suck.

> What's wrong with the freetype stuff?  Eg, xfs-tt.

Performance problems, political problems.  The usual.

Hey, Xatm comes from Tsukuba!  All docs in japanese, of course.

http://www.netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~yokota/izumi/Xatm/

-- Chris

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