Hi all, I recently had trouble with a website that uses Times and Helvetica which I was able to determine was due to unscaled fonts not printing well. It took some digging but I eventually, after exploring links and browsing /etc/fonts based on a link about something else for mozilla that I was led to by a message on debian-user, was able to find out that /etc/fonts/conf.d needed a symlink to ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf which causes the font server to reject unscaled fonts. Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? It seems to me that problems for a regular user who has printing that mysteriously is illegible are more likely than someone actually needing the unscaled bitmap fonts on the font server. Are there any packages that actual *require* the bitmapped unscaled fonts? Perhaps this is part of the unix-like system goal where someone will say 'where the heck is x' if it's disabled? If that's the case, is there anyway to make rejecting them the default behaviour for a desktop, or even if fontconfig is installed, and disabling be a documented manual action in that case, and including them only be the default if there is not fontconfig or maybe desktop? If it's not to be the default is there a place where this change can be clearly documented (and a good place to look for other regular-user-desktop-gotchas-that-won't-be-changed) so that I can point people for whom I install debian to it, and/or print it, and/or create a custom post-install (or modified d-i) that does it automatically? Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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