Getting Fonts to display correctly in Linux

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Alcibiades wrote:

> When I do this on Debian, there are only two fonts that display properly at 
> sizes over 24 point: Bitstream Charter and Courier 10point.  The behaviour 
> Jacque reports occurs with the rest, you pick a too large font, and it 
> defaults to 10 point.  It does this at very small sizes too by the way, 
> defaulting upwards.
> 
> Now, this is almost certainly a peculiarity of Rev's interaction with the 
> distro, not the distro itself or just Rev. 

 From one of my boilerplate tech support responses, I know that fonts in 
Rev work with X11 fonts. If a font is not available, Rev searches for 
X11 "Helvetica". I don't know exactly what that means yet, but when I 
paste it into a reply, Linux users seem to. One of the changes planned 
for the unix engine, if I remember right, is to remove some of these old 
dependencies. Hopefully the font dependency will be one of them.

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