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> About fonts. IMHO, it is more important for AW to support font
> servers. In this case, users would be able to use any fonts they want
> (TTF/T1/...). I am fond of FreeType but font server support is more
> universal solution for AW (IMHO).
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There are two benefits from client-side rendering:
(1) You needn't to install font server or to add some fonts to X
(AbiWord user may have no enought expirience to do so)
(2) You can do glyph antialiasing (smoothing), which is
unsupported in core X and makes displayed glyphs far more attractive,
especially at large font sizes (18pt and more).
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