*** IMPORTANT *** 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 ***************** How fonts are handled in Debian: -------------------------------- 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 XFree86 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 Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:51:35 +0200 Changes for fontconfig 2.3 packages by: -- Keith Packard Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:29:11 -0800