On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 02:17:47 +1100,
Rob Weir wrote:
csj wrote:
Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better
DTP app).
I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps
you should file a wishlist bug on the package asking for
support.
Apparently fixed in
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:19:48PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller said
csj wrote:
Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better DTP
app).
I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps you should
file a wishlist bug on the package asking for support.
But doing this
csj wrote:
At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a
new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that
you can just
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:28:36AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use.
I
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:23:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more
Rob,
Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific
applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding
of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use.
I would love to see a trouble shooting section. I'm
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:43:40PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Since it is a small topic, if you wish, I will be grad to make it a part
of Debian Reference. Rewite around:
At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a
new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that
you can just
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:33:15PM -0700, Ross Boylan said
Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they
look like this
FontPath
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Rob,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
the list a couple of times. It's available from
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
Rob,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:07:52PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
The debconf message for defoma told me to put
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType as a FontPath in
XF86Config-4 but my /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfon t-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/
directory contains nothing but the file,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a new font,
it handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X
at /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
Determining which true type font package to install myself
isn't so obvious. Looks like any package starting with ttf- are true
type font packages. The only three that don't seem to be for another
language are the non-free
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:05:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
So, for the sake of clarification as some conflicting statements have
been made, as long as the FontPath to
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType is given in
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said
[...]
Your detailed tips have me wondering if there's really an
official(tm) Debian way of managing fonts, something
relatively easy like dpkg-reconfigure.
Yes, defoma aka Debian
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
[...]
For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup fontconfig which Xft2
uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a minute.
I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available to GNOME2
and KDE3. I've always been puzzled tho why my GTK1 apps
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000,
Rob Weir wrote:
[...]
For GNOME2 and KDE3, you need to setup fontconfig which Xft2
uses to find fonts. I'll get to that in a minute.
I didn't have to do anything to get my fonts available to
Quoting Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For some apocryphal reason I think I need it for fluxbox to be pretty.
But I might need to rexamine my assumptions :-)
Or perhaps I'm getting confused when I messed around with xterm's XFT
ability.
Depends on what version of fluxbox you're using. Version
-In response to your message-
--received from Rob Weir--
Yes, defoma aka Debian Font Manager. When you install a new font, it
handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X at
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, and leave it alone.
Without defoma, you'd
I just did a clean reinstall of SID (I keep a local mirror and have it
scripted down to 30 minutes :-)).
My /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.alias is
an empty file.
Here's the the contents of that directory:
# ls /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:05:21PM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
So, for the sake of clarification as some conflicting statements have
been made, as long as the FontPath to
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType is given in
XF86Config-4, the order of the FontPaths doesn't matter, ie. even
(4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying
/etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit
rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir ..path..to..bitstream-vera).
(4) is representive of all Xft v1 apps. (4) also takes care of old GTK1
apps.
I am
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:25, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I
discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts
under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, results in myriad yet
often
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:34:05PM +1300, Paul William wrote:
(4) requires a working (1) and moreover requires modifying
/etc/X11/XftConfig; in particular enabling anti-aliasing (match edit
rgba = rgb) and pointing to TrueType (dir ..path..to..bitstream-vera).
(4) is representive of
Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
the list a couple of times. It's available from
http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt and is reproduced below so
people can criticies it more easily :)
By jove, you've got it!!!
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable, or just certain
aspects of it, is a bit limiting, but it's your call.
I'm the rare breed that actually runs Stable on my production, every-day-use
desktop. I'm not a programmer, and I do very little
[erk, to the list now]
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:25:30PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff said
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I
discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts
under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on,
-Original Message-
From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:20 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I think restricting the focus to stable
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)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:30:26AM -0700, Paul Yeatman said
Two questions though from someone with no fonts understanding. It
seems assumed that:
FontPath unix/:7100# local font server
XFree86 4 can read TrueType fonts all by itself, so there's no need to
use
Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
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
Quoting Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Rob, thanks for making this available. I have one comment.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:33:09PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
4) Add :unscaled to the end of the 100dpi and 75dpi font lines, so they
look like this
FontPath
As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system.
AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable,
which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time...
I'm pledging to keep the guide up-to-date, so at some point it will cover the
transition
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:25:30PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
This guide will cover *only* stand-alone workstations. As of Xfree 4.x, it is
absolutely unnecessary to run a font server if serving fonts isn't a requisite,
i.e. most users. It will also cover on Woody stable. There will be no
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:25:30 -0700
M. Kirchhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While looking through the deb-user archives for some font-related info, I
discovered that there is still an insane amount of confusion regarding fonts
under XFree86. Googling, which new users tend to rely on, results in
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:53:22PM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
As an addition, note that this guide will cover only the X core font system.
AFAIK (and correct me if I'm wrong), fontconfig is not available under Stable,
which rules out a discussion of Xft at this time...
I'm pledging to keep
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