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Artwiz fonts in Debian Lenny

Mon Mar 30, 2009

Today I'm going to describe the process I used to install the artwiz fonts on Debian Lenny.

The first step is to download the artwiz fonts from sourceforge. Fire up your web browser and navigate to http://artwizaleczapka.sourceforge.net/

Once that page loads click/select Download. You will be taken to the Sourceforge page. Click Download again and pick the package you want (I picked artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3.tar.bz2 because I only need the English characters)

Next create a folder in the X11 fonts folder. In my case that's /usr/share/fonts/X11 so I would want to create /usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz
Extract the fonts from the package and move them to /usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz 
sudo cp artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3/* /usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz
Now you'll need to ensure that FontConfig allows Bitmapped fonts. 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
and make sure that Bitmapped fonts are enabled. Add a line to xorg.conf in the fonts section: 
      FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz"
and create a file (if it doen't exist) /etc/fonts/local.conf: 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>

<!-- Font directory list -->

	<dir>/usr/share/fonts/X11/artwiz:unscaled</dir>

</fontconfig>
Finally run 
sudo defoma-reconfigure
and restart X.
You should now be able to use the Artwiz fonts in GTK/QT apps.