Rob Weir, great guide, thanks! Two questions though from someone with no fonts understanding. It seems assumed that:
FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server is right out? (I think someone in this thread mentioned a font server not being necessary for "most users") Also, one of the debconf messages told me to put: FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" along with the TrueType path you mentioned in your guide. Again it seems assumed this is either undesired or needless? Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Rob Weir-- > > ======================================================================== > > A very short guide to setting up fonts for X in Debian. It assumes > XFree86 4.1 or more recent, and explains how to setup fontconfig and > Xft1. > > 1) Install x-ttcidfont-conf and defoma > 2) Add a line like this to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, in the "Files" section > > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > > Adding it at the top of the list is probably a good idea. This line > will setup XFree86 to use any TrueType fonts you install from Debian > packages. If you install a new set of TrueType fonts while in X, run > "xset fp rehash" to get XFree86 to look at the contents of that > directory again and to pickup new ones. > > 3) Move this line to the bottom of the list of FontPaths > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > > XFree86 does a rather poor job of rendering Type1 fonts these days, > and if this is above your better looking fonts, you can get a some > pretty ugly results. > > 4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they > look like this > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > > Without the ":unscaled" bit, XFree86 will try to scale these bitmap > fonts up and down, which usually looks rather horrible. > > And, after all that, my Files section looks like this: > > Section "Files" > FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" > EndSection > > Now that it's all setup, install some font packages. ttf-bitstream-vera > is a rather nice set of fonts, and is Free enough to go into Debian > itself. It's not in woody yet, but you can download the .deb from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-bitstream-vera/ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10-3_all.deb > (or your local mirror) and install it with "dpkg -i > ttf-bitstream-vera_1.10-3_all.deb" (as root). sid and sarge users are > just an "apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera" away from it. Another > option is ttf-freefont, which is in all three current versions of > Debian. > > Another alternative is to install Microsoft's Corefonts. They removed > the the fonts from their website, but the msttcorefonts package will > download them for you from a mirror. Note that these are NOT Free (in > the Debian sense), but you're permitted to at least use and download > them. > > Both of these packages (and the other ttf-* packages in Debian) should > now Just Work, and appear available to all X programs that use the > regular "core" font system. This includes things like xterm, emacs and > most other non-KDE and non-GNOME applications. > > Now, run "xfontsel" and select either "Microsoft" or "Bitstream" in the > fndry menu (click on the word "fndry"). Now look at the ungrayed out > entries in the "fmly" menu. You should have a bunch of either Microsoft > fonts (Verdana, Trebuchet, etc) or some Bitstream ones (or both). > > For KDE2.2 and GNOME1.4 (with libgdkxft0, which is a hack to get GTK > 1.2 to do anti-aliased font rendering), you need to setup Xft1, as > well. Xft1 is highly deprecated, and is basically only used by > GNOME1.4 and KDE2.2. For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup > "fontconfig" which Xft2 uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a > minute. > > Edit /etc/X11/XftConfig and add a line like > > dir "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" > > before the other dir lines. I don't have any xft1 stuff on my machine > anymore, so I'm not sure if you need to restart X or not before this > change will take effect. I seem to remember that "xftcache" would > update the Xft1 cache, but it'd be good if someone could confirm that > for me. > > Now, for fontconfig. You shouldn't need to install anything extra for > this, since all the packages using fontconfig will Depend on it > (indirectly) already. First, look in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. There > should be a line like the one below. If not, open up > /etc/fonts/local.conf and add this > > <dir>/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType</dir> > > just after the <fontconfig> line. > > Fontconfig should pick these up immediately, and "fc-list" should list > your new fonts. Another neat feature of fontconfig is that you can just > drop fonts in ~/.fonts/ and all your fontconfigified programs will have > access to them immediately. > > > -- > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? > Words of the day: Ft. Knox arrangements beanpole UOP Legion of Doom Echelon > Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================== ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt== ================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]