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Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
fonts is enabled?

I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that
this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Verdana.

That's the screen font I use wherever I can and it does not render quite
as well on debian etch as on a Windows machine.

Is there a way I can find out?

And if it it turns out it is not enabled, is there a document anywhere
that explains how I could enable it on a debian system?

Thank you!

gavron.

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how can I find out if ttf native hinting is enabled?

Submitted by Liam O'Toole on Sat, 2007-09-01 04:00.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
gavron wrote:

> Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> fonts is enabled?
>
> I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that
> this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Verdana.
>
> That's the screen font I use wherever I can and it does not render
> quite as well on debian etch as on a Windows machine.
>
> Is there a way I can find out?

Try this:

debconf-get-selections | grep fontconfig

>
> And if it it turns out it is not enabled, is there a document anywhere
> that explains how I could enable it on a debian system?

You would do (as root):

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

>
> Thank you!
>
> gavron.
>
>

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Liam

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how can I find out if ttf native hinting is enabled?

Submitted by Michael M. on Sat, 2007-09-01 06:00.

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 08:59 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:50:00 -0400
> gavron wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how I can figure out if native hinting for truetype
> > fonts is enabled?
> >
> > I've been running etch for a couple months now and I understand that
> > this is the way to go with quality fonts such as Microsoft Verdana.
> >
> > That's the screen font I use wherever I can and it does not render
> > quite as well on debian etch as on a Windows machine.
> >
> > Is there a way I can find out?
>
> Try this:
>
> debconf-get-selections | grep fontconfig

On my system, debconf-get-selections returns "command not found."

How does one get a list of all packages that debconf configures? The
man page for debconf-show says, "The most common use is "debconf-show
packagename", which displays all items in the debconf database owned by
a given package, and their current values. Questions that have been
asked already are prefixed with an ’*’. This can be useful as a
debugging aid, and especially handy in bug reports involving a package’s
use of debconf." But it doesn't say how to figure out which packages
use debconf.

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