Adding Fonts for Labview under Debian

[anshuljain]

I posted this at the Debian Forums and cross posting this here, hoping
a Labview engineer can help me

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=55536

Hi all,
A long time Linux user, but a first time Debian user  I've installed
Mint Debian Edition to evaluate the possibility of having Debian as
one of the support platforms for my development and deployment
platform which is built on LabVIEW. I have been using Labview under
Ubuntu for a while now and it works fine...including the font
rendering. The font rendering by Labview doesn't use fontconfig but
some archaic one from Xfree86 (maybe?). Under Ubuntu, if I had to add
Tahoma font to provide some readability...all I had to do is copy
tahoma.ttf into a /usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom directory, load a
custom.hints file in /etc/defoma/hints and register the fonts as per
the commands :-

mce_markergt; sudo /usr/bin/defoma-font -v register-all /etc/defoma/hints/custom.hints
mce_markergt; sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig

Now, I tried the same thing with Debian and for some reason, I'm
unable to get the tahoma fonts to render the exact same way as under
Ubuntu. I must add that I tried my hand at some amateur debian
packaging and managed to patch cairo and fontconfig with Ubuntu
patches and get better rendering. Can someone help me with this issue?
Attached are some screenshots comparing the front screens of Labview
under Ubuntu and Debian.

Thanks!
Anshul