README
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2Collection of Free ATM Fonts
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4
5This is a collection of 79 freely available fonts. All of them were found in
6the CICA archives for Windows.
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8Some of them are missing special characters, some only contain capitals,
9some contain special alphabets. Be careful and check!
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11The collection was motivated by the lack of good fonts for Linux especially X11
12and ghostscript. Scaled bitmaps look really ugly!
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14Installation for X11
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171. Change to /usr/X11/lib/fonts
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192. untar the archive freefont-0.10.tar.gz
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213. Give the following commands to make X11 accept the new fonts
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23 xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont
24 xset fp rehash
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264. The fonts are available under X11.
27Check them out by running "xfontsel" for example.
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295. Cleanup. You might erase all licenses in
30/usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont with
31 rm *.license *.tgz
32but it would be better to have a look at them first...
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34Installation for Ghostscript
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361. Change to /usr/lib/ghostscript
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382. Save the file "Fontmap"
39e.g.
40 cp Fontmap Fontmap.old
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423. copy the new Fontmap from the archive.
43If you have installed it already in X11 do
44 cp /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont/Fontmap .
45
464. Copy necessary fonts to the ghostscript font directory
47 (or use links.)
48
49 cp /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont/tempo*pfb font
50 cp /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont/baskvl*pfb font
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525. Try it out. Groff -Tps should now produce better loocking documents although
53the fonts do not exactly fit. You might want to tune some more. Replace some
54more fonts with Type 1 ones to get a better output.
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57Collection done by:
58 Christoph Lameter, March 22, 1995 clameter@waterf.org
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60If you have any corrections please tell me! Especially if I missed the
61copyright on one. Some fonts I found did not have a discernable copyright
62and I assumed that it was ok to distribute them.
63
64I have included the licenses/instructions with each font.
65read <font>.license to find out more about a font.
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