Dear all

Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to
use for a desktop machine. The font package I have right now seems to
really screw with the legibility of Xmms and even Iceweasel. I'd like to
make use of fonts that are available in MS Office (for inter-operability
with MS docs I have to process). If it makes any diffs, I typically run
either Gnome or Xfce4, on a testing (Lenny) machine.

Thanks for any leads.

A

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On Sat July 28 2007 12:15, andy wrote:
> Dear all
>
> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to
> use for a desktop machine. The font package I have right now seems to
> really screw with the legibility of Xmms and even Iceweasel. I'd like to
> make use of fonts that are available in MS Office (for inter-operability
> with MS docs I have to process). If it makes any diffs, I typically run
> either Gnome or Xfce4, on a testing (Lenny) machine.
>
> Thanks for any leads.

Install msttcorefonts. That will install a bunch of fonts from ms from the
web.

There are also a couple xfree86-nonfree* packages that may .


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On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> package to use for a desktop machine.

I have only installed one font package and have no experience
with any others.

msttcorefonts

It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

1. Add this to your sources.list.
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
2. Do update.
3. Install the debian-multimedia-keyring. That will get rid of
the annoying GPG errors.
4. Install msttcorefonts.

If you find any others worthwhile, please report back.

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On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> > package to use for a desktop machine.
>
> I have only installed one font package and have no experience
> with any others.
>
> msttcorefonts
>
> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/

This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for this one.


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Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>
>> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
>>
>>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
>>> package to use for a desktop machine.
>>>
>> I have only installed one font package and have no experience
>> with any others.
>>
>> msttcorefonts
>>
>> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
>> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
>>
>
> This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for this one.
>
>
>
I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with
Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly
Xmms is the worst of the bunch.

A


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On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote:
> Alan Ianson wrote:
> > On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> >> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> >>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> >>> package to use for a desktop machine.
> >>
> >> I have only installed one font package and have no experience
> >> with any others.
> >>
> >> msttcorefonts
> >>
> >> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
> >> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
> >
> > This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for this one.
>
> I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with
> Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly
> Xmms is the worst of the bunch.

Are you using utf-8 by chance? I haven't made the switch to utf-8 because a
number of apps I use (mostly console) don't look right when I use it. This
sounds similar but I don't know for sure.


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Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote:
>
>> Alan Ianson wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
>>>>> package to use for a desktop machine.
>>>>>
>>>> I have only installed one font package and have no experience
>>>> with any others.
>>>>
>>>> msttcorefonts
>>>>
>>>> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
>>>> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
>>>>
>>> This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for this one.
>>>
>> I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with
>> Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly
>> Xmms is the worst of the bunch.
>>
>
> Are you using utf-8 by chance? I haven't made the switch to utf-8 because a
> number of apps I use (mostly console) don't look right when I use it. This
> sounds similar but I don't know for sure.
>
I really don't know. How could I tell?

A

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Alan Ianson wrote:
> >On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> >>On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> >>
> >>>Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> >>>package to use for a desktop machine.
> >>>
> >>I have only installed one font package and have no experience
> >>with any others.
> >>

What about just standard ttf-dejavu and gsfonts-x11?

Doug.


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