Re: Debian, and font support help

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (04/05/05 21:28), Mr. Kevin Veroneau wrote:
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: "Mr. Kevin Veroneau" <kevinv@zyrixnet.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 21:28:24 -0500
> Subject: Debian, and font support help
> 
> Debian-Users,
> 
>    I am having trouble with Fonts and OpenOffice.org. I had them
> working right before. I had over 200 awesome looking fonts, including
> the gimp ones. But after I bought my new 80GB HDD, I re-installed Debian
> on it, losing how I did my previous installation. I don't know what I
> did before, but now I only have Win**** core fonts, nothing more. I
> installed all the other font packages, and even "The GIMP" doesn't see
> the gimpers font package. If someone knows a list of packages needed to
> have complete font support for all applications under X, please tell me.
> I am guessing I am missing a package somewhere. Because when making
> PDFs, I love to make them look unique since I can, it views the same on
> every OS.

The result of 'dpkg -l | grep font' here gives:
ii  console-data   2002.12.04dbs- Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback
table
ii  console-tools  0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  defoma         0.11.8-0.1     Debian Font Manager -- automatic font
config
ii  fontconfig     2.3.2-1        generic font configuration library
ii  gsfonts        8.14+v8.11+urw Fonts for the Ghostscript
interpreter(s)
ii  libconsole     0.2.3dbs-56    Shared libraries for Linux console and
font
ii  libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1        generic font configuration library
(shared l
ii  libfreetype6   2.1.7-2.4      FreeType 2 font engine, shared library
files
ii  libfreetype6-d 2.1.7-2.4      FreeType 2 font engine, development
files
ii  libt1-5        5.0.2-3        Type 1 font rasterizer library -
runtime
ii  libxft1        4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 FreeType-based font drawing library
for X (v
ii  libxft2        2.1.7-1        FreeType-based font drawing library
for X
ii  psfontmgr      0.11.8-0.1     PostScript font manager -- part of
Defoma, D
ii  x-ttcidfont-co 17             Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
ii  xfonts-100dpi  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 100 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-75dpi   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 75 dpi fonts for X
ii  xfonts-base    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 standard fonts for X
ii  xfonts-scalabl 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 scalable fonts for X

You may want to compare what you get from the same command.  The other
area of investigation is the font section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Section "Files"
        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on
	# these
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

#       FontPath       "unix/:7100"       local font server
										EndSection

										Section
										"Module"
       Load "GLcore"
       Load "bitmap"
       Load "dbe"
       Load "ddc"
       Load "dri"
       Load "extmod"
       Load "freetype"
       Load "glx"
       Load "int10"
       Load "record"
       Load "speedo" 
       Load "type1"
       Load "vbe"
EndSection 

Regards

Clive

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