I made a simple little ebuild that will download and install the MS TrueType fonts that are available from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ I mostly made it cause I prefer MS's Verdana font. All the tarball on the site contains are the two scripts, one that runs wget to download the fonts, then ttmkfdir to make the fonts.dir file, and the other to make the fonts.alias file. It requires the user to add the path to /etc/X11XF86Config manually, but does tell how. I wish to submit this as an intial package that could be useful. It could probably be improved greatly, and probably should be.
Created attachment 4529 [details] ebuild, changelog and digest These should be untarred to /usr/portage/x11-misc/
Created attachment 4530 [details] The tar retreived by the ebuild containg the work scripts I would much prefer this to eventually be hosted elsewhere, which will require a change to the ebuild to accomplish.
read /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.2.1.ebuild
Well then I retract my submission. So, take that! Ha! No seriously, how does X find the fonts then. I may have missed something in my setup, but I did not see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype, which is where these fonts live, in my XF86Config after setting things up. I followed the Desktop Guide in doing so. I have seen a couple other users complain on IRC regarding poor fonts. Another question along this line, the X setup doesn't seem to use xfs, yet xfs is installed.
do you have 'truetype' in your USE variable ? also, by 'poor font quality' could you be more specific ? gtk1 apps dont utilize AA fonts for the most parts, so those will look horrible
