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Author Re: Please, not more font packages
Alan Shutko

2004-09-02, 6:55 pm

Robert Lemmen <robertle@semistable.com> writes:

> [...] but if we want our OS to be used for publishing and things
> like that too, we need to do better...


I'm not sure I agree with that.

For people doing professional publishing, I think they'll be using
commercial typefaces from Adobe, Monotype, AGFA and the like.

People doing amateur stuff can easily pick up a $5 CD set with more
typefaces than we really want to put in Debian.

As long as there's an easy way to install user-supplied fonts (easy
being the operative word here) I don't see a need to pile them in the
distribution.

--
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
"Brother," signed Pooh, in Chinese Sign Language...


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