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>10. Useful Font Software for Linux</H1
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>There are several font packages for Linux. Many of them are obsolete, or you really will never have to use them.</P
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>chkfontpath is a utility for manipulating the <TT
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>xfs</TT
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> configuration file.</P
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>fontinst</A
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> is a LaTeX package designed to simplify the installation of Type 1 fonts into LaTeX.</P
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>Freetype</A
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> is a TrueType library that comes with most Linux distributions</P
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HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/"
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>Ghostscript</A
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> 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)</P
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>pfm2afm</A
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> is a utility for converting windows <TT
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>pfm</TT
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> font metric files into <TT
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>afm</TT
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> 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.</P
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>mminstance and t1utils</A
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> are two packages for handling Type 1 fonts. mminstance is for handling Adobe's <A
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>multiple master</A
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> Type 1 fonts. t1utils is a suite of utilities for converting between the different Type 1 formats.</P
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>ttf2pt1</A
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> is a TrueType to Type 1 font converter. It is useful if you have applications that require Type 1 fonts.</P
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>ttfps</A
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> converts <TT
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>.ttf</TT
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> TrueType font files into Type42 files.</P
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>ttfutils</A
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> A package of utilities for handling TrueType fonts. This package requires <TT
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>ttf2pt1</TT
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>. Useful if not essential. </P
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>type1inst</A
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> is an essential package for installing Type 1 fonts. It greatly simplifies the installation.</P
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>xfstt</A
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> is a TrueType font server for Linux. It's useful, but <TT
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>xfs</TT
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>xfsft</A
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> The xfsft font server. Note that this is included in <TT
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>xfs</TT
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>x-tt</A
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> is a font server designed to handle Korean and Japanese fonts.</P
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