The X consortium has patches (which probably won't appear until X11R6.3) which fix this (permitting gzip-compressed fonts, using zlib.) That would solve the problem for real. If someone wants to try shipping a debian X release with this support in it, I can forward my original version of the changes... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com