Re: defoma/ghostscript/fontconfig/cups mess
On Jun 10 2005, Kirill wrote:
> The system is the latest x386 sid, first installed back in 2001 from a woody
> prerelease CD. All fonts are displayed just fine on screen in KDE. In KWord
> letter spacing is bad for some fonts, specifically Times New Roman.
If you intend to generate postscript and/or PDF files, don't use Times New
Roman. Use, instead:
In place of | Use
----------------+-----------
Times New Roman | Times
Courier New | Courier
Verdana | Helvetica
This way, the spacing won't be messed when you don't embed the fonts in
your documents and happen to use the URW fonts (which are clones of Times,
Courier and Helvetica).
Also using Palatino (cloned by URW Palladio) isn't a bad choice, if you can
choose what to use in your documents.
> Is this stuff supposed to work at all? What is the right way to unhose
> this mess?
BTW, it would be nice if you read about Base 35 and Base 14 fonts to
understand why I listed the above.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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