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<article id='dps'>
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<articleinfo>
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<title>X and DPS</title>
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<author>
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<firstname>Juliusz</firstname><surname>Chroboczek</surname>
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<email>jch@freedesktop.org</email>
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</author>
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<pubdate>27 February 2001, updated 30 October 2006</pubdate>
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</articleinfo>
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<para>
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Updated by Jim Gettys and Juliusz Chroboczek.
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</para>
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<sect1 id='Notice_of_Obsolescence_and_Removal_from_X.Org_Releases'>
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<title>Notice of Obsolescence and Removal from X.Org Releases</title>
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<para>
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DPS is now obsolete.
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</para>
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<para>
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At the time when I started this project, there was no decent rendering
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interface for X11 other than DPS.
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</para>
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Since then, there has been a large amount of work on a simple and
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clean X server extension, Xrender, which provides the basis for just
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such an interface.
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</para>
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<para>
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Rendering libraries that are being built above Xrender include Xft, a
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font rendering library built on FreeType; Cairo, a geometry rendering
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library that provides PostScript-like rendering primitives but with
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from-the-ground support for Porter-Duff compositing (transparency);
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Pango, a high-level typesetting library.
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</para>
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<para>
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If your application uses DPS, please consider porting it to the above libraries.
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See <ulink url="http://dps.sourceforge.net">the DPS extension site</ulink>
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for more details
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</para>
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<para>
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The client-side DPS software was included and built by default (except
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as noted below) in the X.Org X11R6.8 release series. The client-side
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software was included, but not built unless specifically
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configured by the builder, in the X.Org X11R6.9 release series.
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The client-side DPS software is no longer included in X11R7.0 or
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later releases.
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</para>
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<para>
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The server-side software is not included in any X.Org release for
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licensing reasons; the code is still available
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from <ulink url="http://dps.sourceforge.net">the DPS extension site</ulink>;
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it is not known whether it still compiles.
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</article>
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