Unicode font installation on Linux

[Peter Alcibiades]

I used to have this problem on Debian Lenny on versions before 3.0. 
Revolution, and only Rev, would simply fail to see most of the installed
fonts. Most means it would see 10 or 15 out of a couple of hundred. There
was also a problem that even in the ten or so fonts it could see, it would
not use sizes outside certain ranges.  If for instance you selected Arial, a
font it would use, in a size greater than about 24 (don't recall the exact
size any more) it would revert to 10 (or something similarly small).  Rev
never seems to have been able to reproduce this, and now, without them
apparently having done anything, in 3.0 all the fonts seem to be visible AND
you can take any size you want. I haven't done an exhaustive check of all
installed fonts, but this is my impression based on a few spot checks of
fairly obscure ones.  On Mandriva 2008 all the fonts displayed properly in
all sizes all along.  I never figured out why.

There is still an issue, which is probably a Linux problem and not a rev
problem, that the proportions of the fonts and the other elements are not
preserved across distributions.  On Mandriva, for instance, a label may not
exactly fit into a box which it does fit into in Debian.  You just have to
check, or if unable to check, allow generous spacing around text elements.

What is the distribution, and how are you installing them?   
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