[lug] TrueType core fonts for linux

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 18 November 2002 01:52 pm, Anders Knudsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:09, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:56 pm, bill ehlert wrote:
> > >     http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > >     "Installing Microsoft's TrueType core
> > >     fonts for the web on any rpm based
> > >     linux box with TrueType support is
> > >     now easy. The instructions below
> > >     have been tested on RedHat Linux 7.3
> > >     and 8.0, but they are fairly generic
> > >     so they should apply to any rpm based
> > >     linux distribution. If you are running
> > >     debian, please have a look here."
> >
> > These fonts make OpenOffice look really good.  There are instructions
> > somewhere (I found it on lwn.net a couple of weeks ago) for
> > recompiling the font server to make the fonts look even better.
>
> Better? How, what does the recompile do? HowTo link?
> I've got corefonts installed and they are definitely worth it for the
> web browsing. :)

I haven't done it, and the article was a little vague, but apparently some 
capabilities of the freetype server are not enabled by default on some 
distributions for licensing reasons.  Even better rendering is said to be 
possible.

--michael