There must be some specific Debian way of doing this, but I suspect that the TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO is out of date (last updated in January 2000), for the life of me I can't understand the defoma man pages (and I don't think Gimp or OOo can use defoma anyway).

Using dfontmgr seems to just result in fonts not being loaded into Abiword properly (or abiword crashing on selecting some ttf fonts).

Am I alone in feeling despirited that fonts in Linux are still such a pain?

Any help, ideas, pointers to up to date documentation, etc., welcome! I see someone on the Debian list says to use the Anti Aliasing HOWTO........