White Paper: Advanced Font System

by Preston G. Brown
<pbrown@redhat.com>

Copyright © 1999 by Red Hat Software, Inc.

Content

  1. The Problems
  2. The Solutions
  3. The Future
  4. Further Information

Abstract

Font support on Linux has traditionally been rather poor. Red Hat Linux 6.0 goes a long way towards solving these problems by integrating a TrueType font rendering engine, sharing fonts between X Windows and the GhostScript printing system, and enabling automatic updating of configuration files when font packages are added and removed.


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