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- ttf-bitstream-vera for Debian
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-
- The Bitstream Vera family of TrueType fonts has been designed by Jim Lyles of
- Bitstream, Inc. and released under a DFSG-free license. They are distributed by
- the GNOME project. Please see the copyright file for licensing details.
-
- There are ten font faces: four each sans serif and monospace (normal, oblique,
- bold and bold oblique) and two serif (only normal and bold). They cover all of
- ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-9 and ISO-8859-15. Covarage of other charsets is currently
- very limited and non-latin scripts are not covered at all. If you are looking
- for fonts with a wider Unicode coverage please have a look at the ttf-freefont
- package.
-
- Note that these fonts have been designed for anti-aliased display (preferably
- through Xft2) and may not look good when rendered without anti-aliasing. This is
- very unlikely to change, so please do not file bugs about it.
-
- The fonts are automatically available through fontconfig (if it is installed) to
- all fontconfig aware applications (e.g. GNOME 2.2, KDE 3.1, Mozilla when using
- the mozilla-xft package). If you wish to use the fonts in generic X11
- applications you will have to install x-ttcidfont-conf and follow the
- instructions given there.
-
- When reporting bugs in the fonts themselves (i.e. not just in the packaging),
- please be sure to include the following information as far as applicable:
-
- * the versions of your libfreetype6, libxft2 and fontconfig packages,
- * all relevant configuration (especially anti-aliasing and hinting),
- * the application being used,
- * the affected unicode code points.
-
- It may also be helpful if you can provide a screen shot demonstrating the
- problem, however please don't attach it to the initial bug report (especially
- not if it is large). Please also try to make sure that it is actually a bug in
- the fonts and not e.g. in freetype (if a problem appears after a freetype update
- or if other fonts exhibit similar problems it is a sure sign that the problem is
- in freetype).
-
- Further details can also be found on the Bitstream Vera Fonts homepage at:
- <http://gnome.org/fonts/>
-
- -- Michael Fedrowitz <michaelf@debian.org> Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:15:22 +0200
-