Re: Standard fonts..

[Fred Kiefer]

Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> After upgrading to SuSE9.0 this past weekend I made a rather suprising
> discovery: SuSE 9.0 seems to lack the Helvetica font in a format we can use
> under GNUstep (unless I've gotten something wrong).
>
> I believe that we need to package the necessary fonts for both the xlib and art
> withing GNUstep to prevent an end-user from going through this.  I know that we
> package the fonts with art, but I don't believe that we do so with xlib.
>
> Even if these fonts can be gotten from an external source, they should likely
> be distributed with GNUstep or, at least we should document where the user can
> get them.

I have been using Suse 9.0 for some months now and there are Helvetica 
fonts, just not scaleable ones. You have to instal the 75dpi or 100dpi 
module. You may also redefine the fonts which GNUstep uses in the 
defaults settings, but I must admit that I would have to check the 
documentation on the values, as I never needed it. And so I see no need 
to package fonts with GNUstep.

Fred