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- BK 13may03:
- Fonts are a problem with Linux!
- XFree has its own Adobe Type1 fonts in /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/type1/.
- Mowitz library has Type1 fonts in /usr/local/share/Mowitz/fonts/.
- Ghostview has its own set here.
- I tried setting environment variable GS_FONTPATH to point to the
- XFree fonts. I set this is /etc/profile. Ghostscript uses this variable
- after looking in its standard places:
- /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
- /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.50/lib
- /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
- I got an error when tried to run gs* with only the XFree fonts.
- Maybe need to setup a fonts.alias file appropriately...
- 20may03:
- I have removed the XFree Type1 directory, replaced with a symbolic
- link to the Ghostscript Type1 fonts. This saves some space.
- note, Mowitz library removed from Puppy.
- 7Sept03:
- Have upgraded gs from 6.50 to 8.11. Placed a link from
- /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts to here so that new
- gs can find the fonts.
- NOV06 (v2.12):
- Major overhaul! The "Sans" font was mapping to Type1 "Nimbus sans L",
- which was the only scalable sans-serif font in Puppy. It comes in
- 'condensed' and 'normal' but even the normal looks squashed.
- So, have intalled Bitstream Vera TTF fonts, see the link here.
- The 'TTF' directory is about 1.5M, the 'Type1' dir was about 5.0M
- -- but, I have hacked it down to about 1M! -- but need to be
- careful, especially check can open all '.ps' and '.pdf' files
- -- if not, will have to grab more fonts out of the original 'Type1'
- directory.
- Now, 'Sans' defaults to a Bitstream TTF font, looks very nice.
- V2.14:
- On some web pages, DejaVu fonts do not render properly. Ligatures such
- as 'ffi' and 'fi' overlap but are not supposed to when separate chars.
- I applied a patch to the DejaVu v2.13 .sfd source and generated .ttf files.
- This patch turns off the ligatures. (sources044)
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- Woof, June 13 2010
- Have updated DejaVu sans fonts, v5.31
- Compiled from source with hacked Makefile to only create "LGC" reduced fonts but
- retain proper font naming without "LGC".
- Manually install to /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/
- And in that dir run:
- # mkfontscale
- # mkfontdir
- fc-cache also needs to be run, but i have done that in 3builddistro.
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