On 25/01/11 08:31, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hi,
I normally use Arial under both Windows and Linux in my GUI apps. But
Arial is not standard on most Linux distros - I believe it comes with
the additional MS Web Fonts package.
Anyway, recently I saw on WikiPedia that the font Liberation Sans was
explicitly designed to have the exact same metrics as Arial. It seem the
Liberation Sans font came standard with my Ubuntu 10.04 install.
Do other Linux distros have Liberation Sans font as standard? Thus
making it a good alternative to use, compared to Arial (under Linux).
There is no "standard" Debian, since you can choose whether you'd like
an X server on startup. This may help you, though (from squeeze):
$ apt-cache rdepends --no-recommends --no-suggests ttf-liberation
ttf-liberation
Reverse Depends:
xbmc-skin-pm3-hd
sisu-pdf
moovida-plugins-bad
mokomaze
|libphp-jpgraph
freedink-engine
calibre
Openoffice does recommend it (which means it will get installed
automatically by aptitude), but I don't think that openoffice gets
installed in a default Gnome install (except if I've followed the
dependencies incorrectly). From the above you can see that it's not
needed, either way for any "standard" meta packages.
Henry
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