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