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- gsfonts-x11 for Debian
- ======================
-
- This packages makes the 35 Postscript fonts from the gsfonts package
- available to your X server under their "urw" names and via fonts.alias
- with the official "adobe" names, too.
-
- This package does not contain any fonts itself but allows to reuse the
- ghostscript fonts as X11 screen fonts.
-
- It may be a good idea to use these fonts under X11 because many
- drawing programs (xfig, sketch, gimp, ...) need high quality fonts,
- especially the 35 "standard" Postscript fonts, which are used by
- Postscript printers and Ghostscript.
-
- If you have the original Adobe fonts available for X11, I suggest to
- place them somewhere under /usr/local/share/fonts and add this
- directory to the font path before /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, so the
- Adobe fonts have priority over the ghostscript fonts while the latter
- can be used as a fallback, if some Adobe font is missing. You can
- change your font path by editing the xorg.conf(5x) file or by using
- xset(1x). "xset q" displays the current font path configuration
- (among others).
-
- You need the line
- Load "type1"
- in your xorg.conf(5x) file in Section "Module", otherwise the X
- server cannot handle the postscript fonts.
-
-
- Font path order
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- If you notice problems with ugly small screen fonts (especially
- adobe-helvetica, adobe-courier and adobe-times) after installing
- gsfonts-x11, have a look at the order of your font path entries. I
- suggest the following entries in xorg.conf:
-
- Section "Files"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
- FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
- FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
- EndSection
-
- With this font path the Adobe fonts are mentioned multiple times:
- 1) /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled
- These contain the bitmap fonts from xfonts-75dpi(-transcoded) and
- xfonts-100dpi(-transcoded) which contain bitmap Adobe fonts, which
- are optimized for some screen resolutions. The ":unscaled" option
- tells the X server to use them only in their original size without
- scaling them, which makes them ugly, because the pixels are scaled.
- 2) /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1
- This contains the postscript vector fonts from gsfonts-x11. If no
- optimized bitmap font was available above, this uses vector fonts
- which are scalable and look good especially in big sizes.
- 3) /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/, /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi
- These again contain the bitmap fonts but this time the fonts can be
- scaled. This is a last resort fallback, if no scalable font was
- available in the Type1 directory.
-
- It isn't a good idea to use 100dpi/75dpi without the ":unscaled" tag
- before including Type1 in the font path, because this implies that the
- X server always tries to scale the bitmap fonts to large sizes instead
- of using the vector fonts, which look much better for large font
- sizes.
-
- It also isn't a good idea to place the Type1 entry at the head of the
- font path, because the vector fonts aren't optimized or hinted for
- small font sizes, where the unscaled pixel fonts from 100dpi or 75dpi
- are preferable.
-
-
- Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org>
- $Id: README,v 1.7 2006-06-27 14:37:02 roland Exp $
-