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Recently, fontconfig changed to not include bitmapped fonts in the
default font set. There is now a Debconf question about this.
If you wish to enable bitmapped fonts manually, either reconfigure this
package (with dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config), or remove the
symbolic link /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf
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How fonts are handled in Debian:
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Fontconfig is a library which handles font configuration and access at
the system level. It is the foundation for a new font handling in X
applications (but can also be useful without X).
Applications not using fontconfig are accessing their fonts through
the X server. Font packages for these applications are named xfonts-*.
You can also use TrueType fonts with these applications if you install
the x-ttcidfont-conf package, which connects the X server to defoma:
fonts included in ttf-* packages or added manually using dfontmgr can
then be used in these programs.
A few of these applications, using Xft1, can benefit of antialiasing
with vector fonts, but it is deprecated.
The new font renderer in X is called freetype2, and applications
using it access fonts on the client side. Most of them (including all
GTK2/GNOME2 and KDE3 applications) do it using fontconfig, which
provides listing and matching facilities for all fonts installed on the
system. Any font installed in /usr/share/fonts or ~/.fonts will be
accessible to these applications. This is now also true for fonts added
using defoma.
These programs can all benefit from antialiasing, autohinting and
sub-pixel rendering. You can configure it through fontconfig, using
debconf (dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config), or by changing
links in /etc/fonts/conf.d by hand.
Original text by:
-- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:51:35 +0200
Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by:
-- Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800
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