Exceed onDemand A Technical Whitepaper

Figure 13 — Enable or disable font sets from the list or add new font server to the database
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As rich as the font database collection is, it does include every font that is available in the market.
That is why Exceed onDemand allows users to add additional UNIX fonts or font servers to the font
database — the collection is infinitely expandable.
Once the matching font is found, the UNIX font will be transferred to Exceed onDemand Client
if the font has not already been cached on the PC. The font will then be converted immediately
to the Microsoft Windows Font format (FON) for optimized performance.
Printing and File Transferring
Exceed onDemand offers users the convenient advantage of being able to print from X applications
running on Exceed onDemand to Windows printers, instead of printing to a printer in a remote
location. After all, users can connect to Exceed onDemand Server from anywhere in the world.
It only makes sense that print jobs should be sent to printers that Exceed onDemand users can
access. A utility called elpr can help.
elpr is an X application that accepts print jobs from other X applications and passes the jobs to the
Proxy. Through Exceed onDemand Server, print jobs travel to Exceed onDemand Client and, in turn,
to the default Windows printer or any Windows printer of the user’s choice. Since elpr interacts
directly with the X application, this utility must be installed on each machine running X applications.
elpr has another responsibility: to provide basic file transfer functionality. Through the same
mechanism and traveling along the same data path, users can use elpr to transfer files from the
host to the PC over the Exceed onDemand connection. All data is transferred over the Cluster
Manager Connection.
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