Re: GTK frontend, fonts problem solved

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Davide Viti wrote:
> > With new iso only Hebrew is still missing. Could you try tracing that?
> > (Although Hebrew was not working with your 20050922 iso either.)
>
>
> Don't know anything about fonts, but I tried to see what's available for
> Hebrew:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianHebrew suggested two debian packages
> - culmus
> - ttf-freefont
>
> I "apt-get sources"-ed both but culmus creates too many files and I do not
> know which ones are needed. ttf-freefont creates just a few font files
> which I put in a tarball; unfortunately the mini.iso I created including
> those did not work, so I suppose something else has to be configured
> (the instructions contained in README.Debian were not really appliable to
> the installer files).
> Since it turns out that building ttf-freefont you also get an udeb, I
> suppose these fonts are suitable with the needs of the installer.
>
> ciao,
> Davide

as you i don't know anything about fonts, so i think it would be better 
asking .deb mantainers of font packages we need if they can prepare 
udebs for us.
It would be interesting building a new d-i_gtk_fonts.tgz from scratch 
using only ttf fonts (no type1) to check what the amount of required 
space would be (i fear it will result into an huge increase of size 
since ttf fonts are nicer but also bigger than type1 fonts).
We still need to solve the maximum coverage-minimum size problem.

ciao

Attilio

ps

i'm very pleased to see things are proceing at a fast pace :)