2005-03-03 02:59:28 +01:00
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*** IMPORTANT ***
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Recently, fontconfig changed to not include bitmapped fonts in the
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default font set. There is now a Debconf question about this.
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2005-03-10 23:06:20 +01:00
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If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this
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package (with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig), or remove the
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symbolic link /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf
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2005-03-03 02:59:28 +01:00
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How fonts are handled in Debian:
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Fontconfig is a library which handles font configuration and access at
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the system level. It is the foundation for a new font handling in X
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applications (but can also be useful without X).
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Applications not using fontconfig are accessing their fonts through
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the X server. Font packages for these applications are named xfonts-*.
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You can also use TrueType fonts with these applications if you install
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the x-ttcidfont-conf package, which connects the X server to defoma:
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fonts included in ttf-* packages or added manually using dfontmgr can
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then be used in these programs.
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A few of these applications, using Xft1, can benefit of antialiasing
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with vector fonts, but it is deprecated.
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The new font renderer in XFree86 is called freetype2, and applications
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using it access fonts on the client side. Most of them (including all
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GTK2/GNOME2 and KDE3 applications) do it using fontconfig, which
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provides listing and matching facilities for all fonts installed on the
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system. Any font installed in /usr/share/fonts or ~/.fonts will be
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accessible to these applications. This is now also true for fonts added
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using defoma.
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These programs can all benefit from antialiasing, autohinting and
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sub-pixel rendering. You can configure it through fontconfig, using
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debconf (dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig), or by changing
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links in /etc/fonts/conf.d by hand.
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2005-03-10 23:06:20 +01:00
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Original text by:
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2005-03-03 02:59:28 +01:00
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-- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:51:35 +0200
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2005-03-10 23:06:20 +01:00
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Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by:
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-- Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800
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