Comments, corrections, additions and critiques are always welcome. You can reach the author at <hal@foobox.net>. Contributions are also welcomed. Especially anyone who really stays current with KDE and/or GNOME issues! (So I guess nobody uses these since the silence is deafening?)
If this keeps up, this document will have to be renamed the Font Beautification HOWTO ;-).
2.01: October 03, 2002. Update links for obtaining the MS web fonts (TrueType fonts of choice). There are two Sourceforge projects with these fonts available, including. http://sourceforge.net/projects/font-tool/.
Add section to Mozilla configuration to include info on Xft and anti-aliasing.
2.00: September 12, 2002. Wow, MS has taken down their webfonts page :( Not good news. Installing TrueType is a key ingredient to better living through nice fonts.
Major re-organization by moving the font server section to the appendix, since any recent distro is already installing these, or they are not any longer needed.
Some clarifications on gdkxft and font anti-aliasing. Finally, add Aristotle Pagaltzis's perl script for converting fonts.dir to fonts.alias. Include interesting example of using anti-aliased TrueType fonts in xterm. Note that GNOME 2 is out. Fix the usual assorted broken links.
Clarifications on dpi settings, and add tip about unbalanced dpi causing major trouble with fonts.
1.95: February 11, 2002. A few corrections. Removed the section on Fonts in KDE since this has to have changed, and I don't know anything about KDE (does anyone want to help here?). Added a brief section on gdkxft, which adds anti-aliasing support for GTK+ 1.2 applications.
1.9: November 5, 2001. A few new links and some minor catch ups only.
1.8: June 25, 2001: Included a new section on Anti-aliasing and Xft from Danny Tholen <obiwan@mailmij.org>. Many thanks on this not so well documented subject. Also, Sebastiano Vigna's neat little package for downloading and installing MS webfonts: http://freshmeat.net/webFonts4Linux. A few other odds and ends.
1.70: April 18, 2001: Added links for converting Mac TrueType Fonts (thanks to Karl A. Krueger), links to Unicode TrueType fonts (thanks to Tzafrir Cohen for suggestions and URLs), and added a section on anti-aliasing with X 4.0.2 (or greater). Also, included a reference to cabextract, a utility that is now available for extracting Win32 Fonts (among other things) from a Window's "cab" archive.
1.60: March 21, 2001: A few very minor changes. Most notable news is anti-aliasing support now in XFree 4.02 (referenced in the Notes section only). Chinese translation URL added.
The pre-release versions of this document can be found at http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/index.html.
Original author: Doug Holland.
Email: meldroc@frii.com
WWW: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/
Updated and maintained by Hal Burgiss.
Email: hal@foobox.net
WWW: http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/
Special thanks go to:
The developers of the XFree86 Project, for all the hard work and time they have given. Also, Juliusz Chroboczek for his work with xfsft, and XFree86 4.x to help bring TrueType to the hungry masses. And Keith Packard for his anti-aliasing, and other work. This is not to slight the many, many other XFree86 volunteers.
Font wizard Kristin Aanestad, whose legwork and insight on much of the xfs, TrueType, Netscape, and especially, the fonts.alias sections are much appreciated. More from Kristin at Some Linux for Beginners on a wide range of topics.
Danny Tholen <obiwan@mailmij.org> is responsible for the nice Xft section, and examples.
The folks at comp.os.linux.x who gave me a hand in figuring all of this out in the first place.
The Linux community in general who made all of this possible in the first place. Especially those who have offered suggestions and comments that help to make this HOWTO a better resource. Keep those cards and letters coming ;-)
Chinese: http://www.linux.org.tw/CLDP/mini/FDU.html by Yu-Chia Chang.