Did it? I can't find documentation that suggest it returned antialiased font data. The server could of course request a larger font size and scale it down, but did any do that?
I'm not questioning that it'd be possible to render antialiased fonts server side as there's nothing in X that really prevent it, I just don't recall that being a thing, rather than upgrading apps to use Xrender to render fonts client side and send the servers and atlas of pre-rendered glyphs the way we currently do.
I could very well be wrong - I didn't do much X programming in the brief period it'd have been relevant.
They did with the XFT font server?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Font_Server
Did it? I can't find documentation that suggest it returned antialiased font data. The server could of course request a larger font size and scale it down, but did any do that?
I'm not questioning that it'd be possible to render antialiased fonts server side as there's nothing in X that really prevent it, I just don't recall that being a thing, rather than upgrading apps to use Xrender to render fonts client side and send the servers and atlas of pre-rendered glyphs the way we currently do.
I could very well be wrong - I didn't do much X programming in the brief period it'd have been relevant.
Back in the day there was a font server for antialiased fonts, xfstt:
https://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue28/ayers1.html
That was what I was looking for.
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