[PATCH app-xfs 2/3] doc: remove pdf target for developer's doc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Michael Cree wrote:
>> Hope you don't mind a question from a user who is running xfs:  What
>> replaces xfs?  Should we now be running some other application for
>> font serving?
>
> The vast majority of users don't need a font server, as they're not
> running X applications that use the old font apis to reference fonts
> stored on a machine different from the X server.
>
> The new font apis (libXft) don't use font servers or server-side fonts,
> so xfs has no use to applications that use them (as gtk, Qt, and most
> other modern toolkits do).

The reason for xfs was to move the computation and I/O off to the server, 
which might be far away, reducing both.  Client-side font-rendering 
doesn't appear to solve that problem.  Rather than discussing technology, 
so far all I've seen is noise about "new", etc.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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