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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Optimizing around the server
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Date: 17 Aug 88 19:55:00 GMT
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    Date: Wed, 17 Aug 88  14:05:27 CDT
    From: Kerry Kimbrough 

    That is, a
    standard font format file for X. How about it, X Consortium?

There is a good file format for font interchange: BDF.  It's documented
in the release, in doc/bdf.PS.  I would encourage server vendors to
provide compilers that convert BDF to whatever native format their
server wants.  Trying to standardize on a native format is probably a
lot harder, because people want the freedom to make that format
correspond to what their hardware wants to do, and also make it fast to
load.