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<articleinfo>
<title>Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux</title>
<copyright><year>2004</year><holder>Avi Alkalay</holder><holder>Donovan Rebbechi</holder><holder>Hal Burgiss</holder></copyright>
<pubdate>2005-01-13</pubdate>
<pubdate>2005-02-18</pubdate>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Avi</firstname>
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</authorgroup>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>2005-02-18</revnumber>
<date>18 Feb 2005</date>
<authorinitials>avi</authorinitials>
<revremark>Included BCI support status for Mandrake and Gentoo</revremark>
<revremark>Added link to Firefox configuration hack</revremark>
<revremark>Included link to Scribus site</revremark>
<revremark>Removed broken and outdated info links</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>2005-01-12</revnumber>
<date>12 Jan 2005</date>
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<thead>
<row>
<entry>Support</entry>
<entry>No Support</entry>
<entry>No Native Support</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Conectiva</entry>
<entry>Mandrake</entry>
<entry>Red Hat, Fedora</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Conectiva</entry>
= </row>
<entry>Gentoo</entry>
<entry>Red Hat, Fedora</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
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<para>Get <acronym>RPM</acronym>s for your distribution here:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://avi.alkalay.net/software/freetype.bci/">Red Hat and Fedora <acronym>RPM</acronym>s</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://plf.zarb.org/">Mandrake <acronym>RPM</acronym>s</ulink> through the Penguin Liberation Front website. This link was provided by a Mandrake user, but I tryied to find the package without success. I hope Mandrake users will find their way there.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Please send us your distribution specific BCI-enabled FreeType package to be included here.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>WE WILL ACCEPT CONTRIBUTIONS of distribution specific FreeType repackaging, so if you can <ulink url="mailto:avi at unix DOT sh">contact us</ulink>, we appreciate.</para>
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</figure>
<para>So we <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>-><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> and then <emphasis><guibutton>Fonts &#038; Colors</guibutton></emphasis>, and selected <emphasis>Verdana 14px</emphasis> for general browsing and <emphasis>LucidaTypewriter 11px</emphasis> for monospace text.</para>
<para>Firefox is a Gnome application, so it will use Gnome's font settings for widgets.</para>
<para>Additionaly, a very interesting way to configure some font rendering aspects of Firefox is described in a <ulink url="http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/FireFoxFonts">Mandrake Wiki</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<!--section id="thunderbird"><title>Mozilla Thunderbird</title>
</section-->
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<title>Useful Font Software for Linux</title>
<para>There are several font packages for Linux. Many of them are obsolete, or you really will never have to use them.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>chkfontpath is a utility for manipulating the <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">xfs</literal> configuration file.</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.debian.org/~fog/dtm/">DTM -- the Definitive Type Manager</ulink> is a global font management tool. This is a developer's release.</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.tug.org/applications/fontinst/index.html">fontinst</ulink> is a LaTeX package designed to simplify the installation of Type 1 fonts into LaTeX.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>chkfontpath is a utility for manipulating the <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">xfs</literal> configuration file.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.tug.org/applications/fontinst/index.html">fontinst</ulink> is a LaTeX package designed to simplify the installation of Type 1 fonts into LaTeX.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.freetype.org">Freetype</ulink> is a TrueType library that comes with most Linux distributions</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/">Ghostscript</ulink> is the software that is used for printing on Linux. The version of ghostscript that ships with Linux is GNU ghostscript. This is one version behind the latest release of Aladdin ghostscript ( who release their old versions under the GPL)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/pfm2afm.tgz">pfm2afm</ulink> is a utility for converting windows <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">pfm</literal> font metric files into <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">afm</literal> metrics that can be used for Linux. This is based on the original version available at CTAN, and includes modifications from Rod Smith to make it compile under Linux.</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/">mminstance and t1utils</ulink> are two packages for handling Type 1 fonts. mminstance is for handling Adobe's <ulink url="http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_4e.html">multiple master</ulink> Type 1 fonts. t1utils is a suite of utilities for converting between the different Type 1 formats.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://quadrant.netspace.net.au/ttf2pt1/">ttf2pt1</ulink> is a TrueType to Type 1 font converter. It is useful if you have applications that require Type 1 fonts.</para></listitem><listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/jek/programs/ttfps.tar.gz">ttfps</ulink> converts <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">.ttf</literal> TrueType font files into Type42 files.</para></listitem>
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<section id="references"><title>References</title>
<section><title>Font Information</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.rodsbooks.com/">Rod Smith's homepage</ulink> contains a wealth of information about using fonts and printers with Applixware and Word Perfect.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.mindspring.com/~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html">John McLaughlin's page</ulink> discusses setting up fonts with Star Office</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/">Luc Devroye's homepage</ulink> Contains enough information about fonts and other things to sink a ship. This guy designed a bunch of free fonts, and his homepage has a lot of interesting links, information and commentary.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Web_Links&amp;file=index&amp;req=viewlink&amp;cid=3">Scribus list of high quality fonts</ulink>. <ulink url="http://www.scribus.org.uk/">Scribus</ulink> is an Open Source desktop publishing project.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/postscript.html">Jim Land's homepage</ulink> contains a lot of links to sites on PostScript and fonts.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/">The comp.fonts FAQ</ulink>
is the definitive font FAQ.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/">Luc Devroye's homepage</ulink> Contains enough information about fonts and other things to sink a ship. This guy designed a bunch of free fonts, and his homepage has a lot of interesting links, information and commentary.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/index.html">The Font Deuglification HOWTO</ulink> (obsolete) discusses TrueType fonts under Linux. This is the clear winner of the ``TrueType'' HOWTOs. An excellent source of information.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/debian-tt.html">TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO</ulink> discusses installing TrueType in Debian. A must-read for Debian users. Also worth reading if you have <emphasis>any</emphasis> distribution that doesn't have the version of <literal moreinfo="NONE" remap="tt">xfs</literal> with TrueTypesupport.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.moisty.org/~brion/linux/TrueType-HOWTO.html">The (preliminary) True Type HOWTO</ulink> -- an incomplete HOWTO dated June 1998. Included in this list for completeness.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/truetype/">TrueType for XFree86 Mini-HOWTO</ulink> -- a slightly dated HOWTO. Only applicable to Redhat 5.x</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
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<para>This document must be distributed under the terms of <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink>. Please translate, adapt, improve, redistrubute using the original XML DocBook source right bellow. Let me know if you want me to put a link to your translation/adaptation/improvement here.</para>
<para>This document is published in the following locations:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/">Official site, with better fonts and layout</ulink> [<ulink url="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/font-howto-20050113.tar.gz">XML (DocBook) Source</ulink>]</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/">Official site, with better fonts and layout</ulink> [<ulink url="http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto/font-howto-20050218.tar.gz">XML (DocBook) Source</ulink>]</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/">TLDP</ulink> [<ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html">single page</ulink>] [<ulink url="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Font-HOWTO.pdf">PDF</ulink>]</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>

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Font-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux (Font HOWTO)</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jan 2005</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Feb 2005</CiteTitle>.
Provides a comprehensive source to act as a starting point for any
and all font questions about Linux. </Para>
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Font-HOWTO</ULink>,
<CiteTitle>Optimal Use of Fonts on Linux (Font HOWTO)</CiteTitle>
</Para><Para>
<CiteTitle>Updated: Jan 2005</CiteTitle>.
<CiteTitle>Updated: Feb 2005</CiteTitle>.
Provides a comprehensive source to act as a starting point for any
and all font questions about Linux. </Para>
</ListItem>