gsfonts-x11 for Debian
======================

This packages makes the 35 Postscript fonts from the gsfonts package
available to your X server under their "urw" names and via fonts.alias
with the official "adobe" names, too.

This package does not contain any fonts itself but allows to reuse the
ghostscript fonts as X11 screen fonts.

It may be a good idea to use these fonts under X11 because many
drawing programs (xfig, sketch, gimp, ...) need high quality fonts,
especially the 35 "standard" Postscript fonts, which are used by
Postscript printers and Ghostscript.

If you have the original Adobe fonts available for X11, I suggest to
place them somewhere under /usr/local/share/fonts and add this
directory to the font path before /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, so
the Adobe fonts have priority over the ghostscript fonts while the
latter can be used as a fallback, if some Adobe font is missing.  You
can change your font path by editing the XF86Config(5x) file or by
using xset(1x).  "xset q" displays the current font path configuration
(among others).

With XFree86 4.* you need the line
  Load "type1"
in your XF86Config(5x) file in Section "Module", otherwise the X
server cannot handle the postscript fonts.


Older versions of this package (<= 0.7) added
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts to the font path.  This was changed in
version 0.8, now we use symlinks in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and
handle them via update-fonts-scale and update-fonts-alias.


Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> 
$Id: README,v 1.3 2001/10/17 10:51:51 roland Exp $