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Can I use the fontserver (“xfs”) with Xprt ?

April 26, 2017fontserver XFS xprt

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Can I use the fontserver (“xfs”) with Xprt ?

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You can use Xprt with the font server (“xfs”) like with any other Xserver – but it is not recommded since the font server protocol does not allow access to the native font format and therefore disables font download, e.g. both PS Type1 and TrueType fonts cannot be downloaded anymore and Xprt will fall-back to embed them as bitmap glyphs in the print job (e.g. the fonts will still appear correctly in the printout, but the quality may be reduced since downloaded fonts are always better than bitmap glyphs). (users of xprint.mozdev.org-release <= 006 may see xprint.mozdev.org bug 2092 if they use "xfs"; this has been fixed in the 007 release!