Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 10:24 schrieb Paraplegic Racehorse: > Speaking of loading fonts... Debian is a real pain about them > defoma is > virtually useless and apt doesn't register .deb fontpacks with > fontconfig
Hello Paraplegic Racehorse, defoma (short for Debian font management) is indeed a special very debianish thing. However, in Debian Sarge it makes fonts available to ghostscript, fontconfig-aware applications and defoma-aware applications at once. Here proper Debian fontpacks such as Latin Modern get defomanized by default and are available for use with ghostscript and fontconfig-aware applications. If you have problems you can defomanize manually for example a truetype font residing in /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype with defoma-hints -c --no-question truetype /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/* > /etc/defoma/hints/truetype.hints above all one line, then defoma-font register-all /etc/defoma/hints/truetype.hints then defoma-reconfigure and xset fp rehash The defoma-manpages give you more detailed information. You can additionally install by means of fontconfig (for example via KDE control center) or specifically for Scribus using the Scribus fontpath dialog. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
