On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:58:03PM +0000, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:20 +0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote: > > - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ? > > I'd expect anything running under X to simply load named fonts from > those that are available to the X server. > > > - How do I discover which fonts are installed on my box, or better put, > > which fonts are available, to each font-handling method ? > > xlsfonts will tell you which fonts are available for use by X, from > the listed FontPaths in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Its probably a good > idea for you to install cfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, > gsfonts-x11 and msttcorefonts to get a decent selection of fonts. > > http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ could be handy too > > also apt-get install xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base-transcoded xfonts-100dpi-transcoded ttf-bitstream-vera -- *************** * Ionuţ Georgescu * Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme * Noethnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden * Phone: +49 (351) 871-2209 * Fax: +49 (351) 871-1999
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