On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:48:13PM -0500, Glen Wagley wrote: > I've started using Debian (testing) quite frequently. I wouldn't say I'm > extremely comfortable with everything yet. There are a couple of things I have > yet to figure out but the benefits of using Debian outweigh the overhead. > Anyhow, I'm extremely picky about fonts. I notice that when I do an apt-cache > search truetype, I get tons of results. I snagged the xfs-xtt server which > improved things a bit. So what font(packages) do you Debian users have? I see a > ttf-bitstream-vera, ttf-baekmuk, ttf-freefonts, etc. in my search results. Any > recommendations?
apt-get install msttcorefonts
(I think it's still available in testing and unstable)
Use the font renderer that comes with XFree86 4.2.1. It renders
TrueType just fine. I've messed up my fonts by playing with the other
renderers that you must apt-get separately. Here's a snippit from my
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Although I think the package installs the TT fonts to
/usr/share/fonts/truetype (I just copied them to /etc/X11R6/... for
consistency).
Mike
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