35. A system comprising: a font server device for producing, upon a request from a computing device, a subset of one or more fonts, wherein each font subset includes each unique character of the respective font as identified from content of an electronic document by a requested agent included in the computing device; and wherein the font server is configured to initiate sending each font subset to the computing device, or, each font subset and additional characters to the computing device, inclusion of the additional characters being based upon a data transfer threshold.
35. A system comprising: a font server device for producing, upon a request from a computing device, a subset of one or more fonts, wherein each font subset includes each unique character of the respective font as identified from content of an electronic document by a requested agent included in the computing device; and wherein the font server is configured to initiate sending each font subset to the computing device, or, each font subset and additional characters to the computing device, inclusion of the additional characters being based upon a data transfer threshold. 39. The system of claim 35 in which the agent parses the content of the electronic document to identify the characters represented in the document.