# Fonts and FreeBSD

## A Tutorial

### Dave Bodenstab

`<imdave@synet.net>`

$FreeBSD: release/8.4.0/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/article.xml 39632 2012-10-01 11:56:00Z gabor $

Wed Aug 7, 1996

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This document contains a description of the various font files that may be used with FreeBSD and the syscons driver, X11, Ghostscript and Groff. Cookbook examples are provided for switching the syscons display to 80x60 mode, and for using type 1 fonts with the above application programs.

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# 1 Introduction

There are many sources of fonts available, and one might ask how they might be used with FreeBSD. The answer can be found by carefully searching the documentation for the component that one would like to use. This is very time consuming, so this tutorial is an attempt to provide a shortcut for others who might be interested.

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