I would really like to have fontsrv in native Plan 9. It's nice to be able to simply download a font or copy it from a unix system and use it without going through conversion. It would also de-facto introduce a usable interface to rendering ttf fonts on the fly. This could be a nice feature in many applications, e.g. abaco or document viewers. Even for simple conversion, it would be a much nicer interface than ttf2subf.
I don't think you would have to change anything about the surrounding system ... isn't that the whole point for fontsrv? If I didn't misunderstand, it's just a virtual file system that converts ttf fonts to the Plan 9 pixel font format transparently. ~Fritz Am 12.12.2013 12:45, schrieb lu...@proxima.alt.za: > I didn't pay any attention to p9p's fontsrv (sorry, Andrey! It was > you that got that off the ground, wasn't it?) until this morning's > discussion, but it struck me as a very neat solution for a problem > that has been bugging me for a long time: avoiding the time consuming > repeated installation of Plan 9 fonts. Specifically, p9p itself and > local instances of 9vx could be smaller and the installation (and > download, in most cases) would be quicker. > > The question then becomes whether fontsrv could be "ported" to Plan 9 > together with the supporting facilities (openfont(2) is my guess)? I > certainly would be willing to give such port a try, if I can be > convinced that it is not beyond my ability. > > ++L > > > >
