[forum] some XFree86 5.0 questions...

[Wu Jian Feng]

Martijn Sipkema writes:

> - fonts don't need to be local.
> - better caching of fonts
> - access to fonts only by server. this also removes searching for
> available fonts from applications.
> 
> --ms

Thanks for your explaination, but some applications need glyph metrics
information to do their own text layout. And there are PDF embedded
fonts only avaliable on the client side. Having a centric font server
to share font is good, but some font vendors may not allow you to
distribute font data to other machines. Also fontconfig has done an
excellent job on searching/caching.