gsfonts-x11 for Debian
======================

This packages makes the 35 Postscript fonts from the gsfonts package
available to your X server under their "urw" names and via fonts.alias
with the official "adobe" names, too.

This package does not contain any fonts itself but allows to reuse the
ghostscript fonts as X11 screen fonts.

It may be a good idea to use these fonts under X11 because many
drawing programs (xfig, sketch, gimp, ...) need high quality fonts,
especially the 35 "standard" Postscript fonts, which are used by
Postscript printers and Ghostscript.


Older versions of this package (<= 0.7) added
/usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts to the font path.  This was changed in
version 0.8, now we use symlinks in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 and
handle them via update-fonts-scale and update-fonts-alias.


Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> 
$Id: README,v 1.2 2000/01/06 23:30:02 roland Exp $
