[Linux-disciples] Fonts and such

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

What distribution are you using?  Font configuration has become 
increasingly centralized and easy in recent upgrades.  Debian uses 
defoma which should automatically locate installed fonts and make them 
available to applications.  See 
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/defoma.  Other distributions 
have their own ways of dealing with fonts.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:33:48PM -0500, Jason A. Smith wrote:
>> Can anyone give me a quick 1...2...3... of fonts and Linux. I am having
>> a hell of a time rendering some fonts on some websites - specifically my
>> own website. Any pointers toward good basic info on this subject?
> 
> I have no especially good advice to give in the general
> case. Actually, I'll focus a very specific question here to
> perhaps guide the discussion: if I wanted to get Adobe
> Minion Pro working on my machine, how would I do it? That
> is, is there any way to get Adobe OpenType working under
> Linux?
> 
> More specifically in answer to Jason's question: at least
> until a little while ago, you could download some Microsoft
> fonts that were released to the web under a lenient license,
> and are still floating around under that old license. Under
> Debian, I believe the package name is 'msttcorefonts'; you'd
> do
> 
> sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
> 
> See if that does what you want. It's got at least a few
> basic fonts in there that everyone needs -- e.g., Verdana
> and Georgia (both designed for Microsoft by the famed
> typographer Matthew Carter).
> 


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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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