Re: [iPAQ] TTF font usage

From: mallum <breakfast.a.t.10.am>
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 16:17:03 EDT

on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:53:42PM +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Hi all!
> I am currently in the middle of tryiong to install most of GPE on a
virgin device. While doing so I found that many packages rely on the
existance of TTF fonts, especially on those fonts provided by M$,
e.g. Verdana.

Can you give some examples?. Alot of packages such as rxvt and matchbox
provide non-xft alternatives. Xkbd supports both though I'll be
splitting this out soon into 2 seperate packages.

> Those fonts are npot entirely free. Especially they cannot be provided by any distribution (that's why they are not in Familiar).

The distribution can however provide a script or package to download
and install them. This is what familiar and debian do.
 
  -- Matthew
Received on Wed Jul 24 20:17:25 2002

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