debian/README.Debian

   1 *** IMPORTANT ***
   2
   3 Recently, fontconfig changed to not include bitmapped fonts in the
   4 default font set.  There is now a Debconf question about this.
   5
   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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  12
  13 How fonts are handled in Debian:
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  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
  38 debconf (dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig), or by changing
  39 links in /etc/fonts/conf.d by hand.
  40
  41 Original text by:
  42  -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed,  8 Oct 2003 21:51:35 +0200
  43
  44 Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by:
  45  -- Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800