Substituting one font for another system-wide?

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Subject: Substituting one font for another system-wide?
From: "Tim Hull" <thully@umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:15:21 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 9a7c669e0708082015i3fa91af6g12abfb0761eae238@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Debian (both Etch and Lenny), I've noticed that in many applications where the "Arial" font is used, the system reverts to an extremely ugly bitmap Helvetica if Arial isn't installed. However, I would like the system to substitute Bitstream Vera Sans instead. How can I do this?

Tim

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