Re: Microsoft-Fonts

[Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Here are the paths:
>
>
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>
> # paths to search for fonts
> catalogue =
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
How are the fonts going? Get your apt sources.list set straight?

I find myself struggling with fonts in unstable from time to time 
because things change and I don't think I know the 'right' way to 
configure fonts - because there are so many ways and because I forget 
the commands to rebuild stuff (defoma-? dpkg-reconfigure fontconf?) 
Somehow or the other I seem to get it to work.

I have the msttcorefonts package installed. It dropped a lot of files in 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype including Arial.ttf. I believe that the 
package will configure the fonts to be available through defoma and 
through X11/fonts/TrueType.

I don't see TrueType in your font list. Here is the font list I am using 
in XFree86-4:

        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
        FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

I am pretty pleased with the defoma managed fonts. I tried deleting all 
the X11/fonts but X wouldn't work. Anyway I have Arial available in my 
KDE Control Center Font chooser, and I think it is coming from 
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Arial.ttf

--
Jacob