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The names of the fonts in this package have been changed. The
upstream uses the same names as the fonts in the package gsfonts. If
I used the same names this would make imposible to use together both
packages. So when I created the Debian packages I decided to use
other names, namely the names used by Adobe.
Afterwards I was pointed that am not allowed to use these names as
they are trademarks. Now all new font names start with the word
`Free', it ensures the uniqueness of them. The other part of the
names are dictionary English words, this ensures that no part of the
names is a registered trademark.
I have contacted the upstream maintainer in order to ask him how to
call the fonts, but unfortunately he went on a journey and was not
able to answer me. Now a few months later I decided to upload new
packages to Debian with names choosed by me as the packages still use
registered trademarks. It is possible however that in future I will
take into account the preferences of the upstream maintainer.
Note that /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/t1-cyrillic.alias contains commented
lines which if uncommented define the old font names as aliases.
This table summarizes the fontname changings:
Current Debian name Old Debian name Upstream name
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Free Times Times Nimbus Roman No9 L
Free Helvetian Helvetica Nimbus Sans L
Free Helvetian Condensed Helvetica [*] Nimbus Sans L [*]
Free Courier Courier Nimbus Mono L
Free Schoolbook New Century Schoolbook Century Schoolbook L
Free Avant Garde Avant Garde Gothic URW Gothic L
Free Bookman Bookman URW Bookman L
Free Paladin Palatino URW Palladio L
Free Chancery Chancery URW Chancery L
[*] The narrowed versions of `Helvetica' are packaged with family
`Free Helvetian Condensed'. This is so because many applications seam
to ignore fonts with width != normal when fonts with width == normal
are present.
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Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@debian.org>
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