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[Craig Ringer]

> Font support is alos much nicer, though I haven't done much to fix font
> issues under X on my Debian workstation.

I have, somewhat ineptly. I need access to about 2000 fonts acquired 
from MacOS and windows formats, both Type 1 and TrueType, to work with 
some of the stuff generated by the production dep't at work. Problem: 
hinting. Most of the installed fonts are _really_ ugly at small point 
sizes, and moz keeps on picking them for some websites because I have an 
exact match to the font defined in the CSS.

For a while I had everything working well but then I had to make the 
"extra" fonts accessable to X, not just ghostscript - and things have 
been ugly, ugly, ugly since then.

So - any idea how to beat mac and windows fonts into good-looking 
submission, and identify what fonts will and won't work well? I'm so 
tired of ugly fonts and the huge amounts of effort needed to get 
anything to look decent under linux that at times I almost consider 
installing win2k - then I remember the EULA and the (obscene) price tag.

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Craig Ringer
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