On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:40, Dan Egnor wrote: > > By default, only X font directories containing outlines are included > > in fonts.conf now; the bitmap fonts are generally more of an annoyance > > than a help. > > Eep. What about everyone's favorite, misc-fixed? I hate to have to > tell users that they have to mess with their system configuration (or > install a ~/.fonts.conf) to get the full complement of X11 fonts. Red Hat ships a special bitmap-fonts package which installs a small set of selected bitmap fonts in /usr/share/fonts (misc-fixed and lucidasanstypewriter) > In what way are the bitmap fonts an annoyance? * It's really confusing/bad if bitmap helvetica (etc.) are in the set of fonts you are matching against. * The bitmap fonts don't necessarily fall into nice families. * A lot of the bitmap fonts just clutter up the list of fonts, and aren't anything that a user would want to select. (open look cursor would be an extreme example.) * Plus the bitmap fonts in the X11 font directories are .pcf.gz, the .gz backend in FreeType isn't really mature yet, and is always going to be slow. Regards, Owen