Hello ALUG,
I'm just working on adding a PDF 'data sheet' function to one of my databases. (Served using PHP and the FPDF class http://www.fpdf.org/). At the moment it doesn't work because it can't find any fonts (even with names like "Times") and, of course, the obvious answer is to install some.
The Debian package for FPDF suggests installing 'ttf2pt1'. This package depends on a whole load (~20MB, OK not that much) of packages from X which I'm slightly reluctant to install because the machine is supposed to be a web/database server, not an X server. It doesn't, of course, need an X server and maybe (suggestions?) I'm being silly by not wanting to install 'xfree86-common', 'xlibs', etc. (I just don't like the idea of X clutter everywhere).
So, can anyone suggest a way of installing a nice selection of fonts without any X packages or will someone reassure me that installing X packages (not server) is not something to worry about? ;-)
Cheers, Richard