[XeTeX] Loading fonts from a common server or http URL

[Paul Isambert]

Le 22/06/2011 09:28, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) a écrit :
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> Venkatesan. S.K. (TNQ) wrote:
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>> It is more a *fontspec* question and may be it has wider scope...
>> Is it possible to load fonts from http URLs?
>> i.e., can I do this:
>> \fontspec{http://www.ctan.org/public/fonts/STIXGeneral.otf}.
> [...]
> Unfortunately I am not aware of any implementation of [Xe]TeX
> that supports this; probably the most likely candidate would
> be LuaTeX (Taco cc'd) but I do not think that even LuaTeX
> yet supports this concept.

I don't know much about that subject, but LuaTeX includes the LuaSocket 
library which, if I'm not mistaken, does exactly that: access remote files.

Best,
Paul