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10<title>X and DPS</title>
11<author>
12<firstname>Juliusz</firstname><surname>Chroboczek</surname>
13<email>jch@freedesktop.org</email>
14</author>
15<pubdate>27 February 2001, updated 30 October 2006</pubdate>
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19<para>
20Updated by Jim Gettys and Juliusz Chroboczek.
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31<sect1 id='Notice_of_Obsolescence_and_Removal_from_X.Org_Releases'>
32<title>Notice of Obsolescence and Removal from X.Org Releases</title>
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34<para>
35DPS is now obsolete.
36</para>
37
38<para>
39At the time when I started this project, there was no decent rendering
40interface for X11 other than DPS.
41</para>
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43<para>
44Since then, there has been a large amount of work on a simple and
45clean X server extension, Xrender, which provides the basis for just
46such an interface.
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49<para>
50Rendering libraries that are being built above Xrender include Xft, a
51font rendering library built on FreeType; Cairo, a geometry rendering
52library that provides PostScript-like rendering primitives but with
53from-the-ground support for Porter-Duff compositing (transparency);
54Pango, a high-level typesetting library.
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57<para>
58If your application uses DPS, please consider porting it to the above libraries.
59See <ulink url="http://dps.sourceforge.net">the DPS extension site</ulink>
60for more details
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63<para>
64The client-side DPS software was included and built by default (except
65as noted below) in the X.Org X11R6.8 release series.  The client-side
66software was included, but not built unless specifically
67configured by the builder, in the X.Org X11R6.9 release series.
68The client-side DPS software is no longer included in X11R7.0 or
69later releases.
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72<para>
73The server-side software is not included in any X.Org release for
74licensing reasons; the code is still available
75from <ulink url="http://dps.sourceforge.net">the DPS extension site</ulink>;
76it is not known whether it still compiles.
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