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- *** 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-config), 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-config), 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
-
- Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by:
- -- Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800
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