Re: Fonts working "out of the box"

[Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@i.am>]

Robert van der Meulen wrote:
> 
> 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.


Does anyone actually know any application which I could use to create my
own true type font - all I could find is FontCreator for Windows 


thanks


kabi