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@@ -9,18 +9,19 @@ UNIX/GNU/Linux/BSD Systems
--------------------------
FreeFont works with any system using the free font rasterizer FreeType
-<http://www.freetype.org/>.
+<http://www.freetype.org/>. Some features such as glyph substitution and
+positioning may be handled by the text layout library
+Pango <http://www.pango.org/>.
+
+Most recent systems using FreeType2 and Pango handle OpenType fonts well,
+but on older systems TrueType may perform better.
* Debian GNU/Linux
Users of Debian GNU/Linux system will probably want to use the Debian package,
-available from the Debian site,
-
- <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-freefont.html>,
-
-or any of its mirrors.
+named 'ttf-freefont', available from the Debian Linux site.
-Install them by issuing the command
+Install the fonts by issuing the command
apt-get install ttf-freefont
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ Control Center module "kcmfontinst", which may appear in the menu as
This is especially helpful for developers and testers.
-* Generic X-windows
+* Generic X Window systems
1) Fetch the freefont-ttf.tar.gz package with Free UCS outline fonts
in the TrueType format.
@@ -52,13 +53,21 @@ This is especially helpful for developers and testers.
4) Run ttmkfdir in the directory where you unpacked the fonts.
-Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Vista
--------------------------------
+Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP; Vista/7
+-------------------------------------------
-Note that in at least Vista, XP and 2000, the OpenType versions perform much
-better than, and are recommended over, the TrueType ones.
+Note that in at least Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000, the TrueType versions
+perform much better than, and are recommended over, the OpenType ones.
-* Vista:
+For good font smoothing in Windows, Microsoft ClearType must be enabled.
+The native Windows web browser must be used to install, enable, and configure
+ClearType. A web search for "ClearType Tuner" will find the proper web pages.
+Recent versions of the browser raise a security block (a yellow bar at the
+top of the window), which you must act upon to allow installation. A
+checkbox in the window turns ClearType on (in Win-speek, "Turn on ClearType").
+The change happens immediately.
+
+* Vista, Windows 7:
1) From the Start menu, open Control Panels
2) Drag-n-drop font files onto Fonts control panel
You may get a dialog saying
@@ -69,18 +78,21 @@ better than, and are recommended over, the TrueType ones.
The font installation is similar to Vista.
In order to use OpenType, users of Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 can
- install Adobe's 'Type Manager Light'. It is available for download
- without cost from Adobe's web site.
+ install Adobe's 'Type Manager Light', which may be obtained from
+ the Adobe web site.
Otherwise, use the TrueType versions.
-Mac OS X
---------
+Apple Mac OS X
+--------------
+
+Support for OpenType on MacOS X started with OS 10.4, and has been improved
+gradually in later versions.
-Installing on Mac OS X consists of moving the .ttf files to either
+Installing on Mac OS X consists of moving the font files to either
/Library/Fonts/ or ~/Library/Fonts/
depending on whether they should be available to all users on your system
-or just to yourself.
+or just to your own user.
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-$Id: INSTALL,v 1.7 2008/12/26 12:33:31 Stevan_White Exp $
+$Id: INSTALL,v 1.11 2011-06-12 07:14:12 Stevan_White Exp $