Re: Fonts working "out of the box"

[Robert van der Meulen <rvdm@cistron.nl>]

Hi,

Quoting Claes Andersson (claes2001@hotmail.com):
> There are many issues with fonts. As far as I know, no good truetype fonts 
> can be directly distributed with debian. Antialiasing is possible, but needs 
> tweaking of XftConfig and a supporting XServer. There are font paths that 
> must be correct, and applications that has to use the correct font settings. 
This is not all.
At first, antialiasing is a very personal matter. Antialiasing will work in
all kde-ish applications without trouble, in xterm; but not in netscape,
mozilla, or other gtk-compiled stuff. I have a patch against gtk to allow
for antialiased fonts, but frankly it sucks :)
Antialiasing is a hack, to 'fix' bad fonts. The fontsizes you want to use
antialiasing on, depend on the size of your monitor, the resolution you're
using - lots of variables. This is not a trivial task.

Afaik task packages are extinct, so your suggestion about that won't work ;)

If you're dissatisfied with the way fonts work, i guess your best bet would
be locating the packages you'd like to see fixed, make patches for config
files, and submit them as wishlist bugs.

Greets,
	Robert
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