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1 | *** IMPORTANT *** |
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| 3 | Recently, fontconfig changed to not include bitmapped fonts in the | |
| 5f347d9c | 4 | default font set. There is now a Debconf question about this. |
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6 | If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this |
| 7 | package (with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig), or remove the | |
| 8 | symbolic link /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf | |
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| 10 | ***************** | |
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| 13 | How fonts are handled in Debian: | |
| 14 | -------------------------------- | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | Fontconfig is a library which handles font configuration and access at | |
| 17 | the system level. It is the foundation for a new font handling in X | |
| 18 | applications (but can also be useful without X). | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | Applications not using fontconfig are accessing their fonts through | |
| 21 | the X server. Font packages for these applications are named xfonts-*. | |
| 22 | You can also use TrueType fonts with these applications if you install | |
| 23 | the x-ttcidfont-conf package, which connects the X server to defoma: | |
| 24 | fonts included in ttf-* packages or added manually using dfontmgr can | |
| 25 | then be used in these programs. | |
| 26 | A few of these applications, using Xft1, can benefit of antialiasing | |
| 27 | with vector fonts, but it is deprecated. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | The new font renderer in XFree86 is called freetype2, and applications | |
| 30 | using it access fonts on the client side. Most of them (including all | |
| 31 | GTK2/GNOME2 and KDE3 applications) do it using fontconfig, which | |
| 32 | provides listing and matching facilities for all fonts installed on the | |
| 33 | system. Any font installed in /usr/share/fonts or ~/.fonts will be | |
| 34 | accessible to these applications. This is now also true for fonts added | |
| 35 | using defoma. | |
| 36 | These programs can all benefit from antialiasing, autohinting and | |
| 37 | sub-pixel rendering. You can configure it through fontconfig, using | |
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38 | debconf (dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig), or by changing |
| 39 | links in /etc/fonts/conf.d by hand. | |
| dc2e06ab | 40 | |
| 5f347d9c | 41 | Original text by: |
| dc2e06ab | 42 | -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:51:35 +0200 |
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| 44 | Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by: | |
| 45 | -- Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800 |