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About TV fonts

This package contains a number of fonts which are useful for TV applications:

led-fixed

This is the big font which xawtv uses by default for the onscreen display in fullscreen mode.

ets-teletext

This is a teletext font. It contains the block graphic characters used by teletext pages. When watching teletext with the mtt teletext browser you'll get much better results with these fonts installed.

ets-caption

A font for closed captions.

The fonts used to be bundled with xawtv, but since version 3.76 they are a separate package.

Installation

Very short install instructions:

• download from dl.bytesex.org.
• unpack (tar xzf tv-fonts-version.tar.gz).
• run "make" in the tv-fonts directory.
• copy the *.pcf.gz files to some directory which is in your X11 font path (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc for example).
• run mkfontdir in that directory.
• (optionally) "xset fp rehash" can be used to tell the X-Server to rescan the directories, which will make the new fonts available without restarting the X-Server.