> > What's the difference and all that? It'd be nice to be able to just use
> > one font package instead of installing, essentially, the same fonts twice.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. We install fonts that happen
> to come from GhostScript. We haven't actually modified any
> of these fonts (except for the binary->ascii conversion),
> but AbiWord and X need the fonts.dir to be use the fonts. If
> you're hinting that you'd rather just use the fonts.dir around
> the normal GhostScript fonts, well, you should be able to do
> that. :) The GhostScript fonts were chosen because, well,
> they were the first batch of freely re-distributable Type 1
> fonts I found. We're planning on adding/changing the standard
> font package, and even adding fonts for other character sets
> by the 1.0 release (some for Latin-2, Latin-3, perhaps some
> for Eastern encodings).
The next CD of Debian (2.2 codename potato) is slated to have a package
with ghostscript fonts and a seperate package with the fonts in the abiword
package. If one of those packages could be removed, that would reduce the
necessary disk space....
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