At Sat, 18 Oct 2003 05:46:15 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 07:59:16AM +0800, csj said
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 03:27:14 +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
Yes, defoma aka "Debian Font Manager". When you install a new font, it handles setting up symlinks and such so that you can just point X at /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, and leave it alone. Without defoma, you'd have to point X at wherever fonts installed themselves, and update the various fonts.* files that live next to the fonts.
I have two problems with such a setup:
First is that the official xserver-xfree86 package appears not to be defoma- or at least x-ttcidfont-conf-aware. So I have to do a trick or two with my favorite editor after reconfiguring xserver-xfree86. (Actually the editor part is just cat font_path.txt >> XF86Config-4) Should this be filed as a wishlist bug?
No, it will be handled by a different system. See bug #202096.
Second is that I have a program that for some reason doesn't recognize symlinks.
Which symlinks? In /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType? X or your fontserver looks in there, no user X program needs ever touch them, they get all their font data from the X server.
Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better DTP app).
Not to deviate too much - but still under this topic:
Reading the information on font servers, it would appear that my preferred setup would be to install all my fonts on a single server, setup XFT on that machine, and then point all my X workstations at that XFT server. But doing this does not appear to give me all my fonts in different programs. Am I better off with sharing that server's font directory and not using XFT at all?
I primarily utilize TrueType fonts - and I'm still supporting Windoze applications with Wine.
Daniel
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