fontypython(1) [debian man page]
FONTYPYTHON(1) FONTYPYTHON(1) NAME
fontypython - Find, view and manage font files of all kinds. SYNOPSIS
fontypython [OPTIONS]... [VIEW]... [TARGET]... DESCRIPTION
fontypython is a GUI utility written in Python and WxPython that will help you do font stuff on GNU/Linux system. You can quickly view and filter arbitrary* TTF, TTC, OTF or Type1 font files and then gather them together into 'Pogs' which can be installed or removed as needed. In this way you control which fonts are installed on a per-project basis. If you have gucharmap or kfontview installed, (there is an option in Settings to choose which one) you can view any font's character maps etc. *Arbitrary means you can see and/or use any fonts in a local directory (or a mount). They do not need to be installed on your system. OPTIONS
VIEW A place where fonts are. A Pog or a folder someplace. TARGET A "Pog". A place to keep those fonts (just references to them). OPTIONS Below are the various command-line options. You don't need to use them, but they are handy. The program will run as a GUI if you only invoke 'fontypython'. -e, --examples Show some %$@#$ examples! -l, --list List the names of all the Pogs. -i Pog, --install=Pog Install the fonts in this Pog to your fonts folder. -u Pog, --uninstall=Pog Uninstall the fonts in this Pog. -p Pog, --purge=Pog Purge the Pog of font files that are no longer really there. -s num, --size=num Set a new default point size. -n num, --number=num Set a new default for how many fonts to view at one go. Don't overdo this. -c folder --check=folder Check for bad fonts that crash the program. It will recurse through sub-folders. This will build a file: ~/.fontypython/segfonts After using this tool you should be able to browse safely. (The reason it's not done by default is that it's very slow.) NOTE: The fonts that crash the program are probably still perfectly good and can be used in other apps. -a folder Pog, --all=folder Pog Puts all fonts in this folder into the Pog. If the Pog already exists, it will add only *new* fonts, this means fonts are not repeated in that Pog. -A folder Pog, --all-recurse=folder Pog Puts all fonts in this folder and *all* sub-folders into the Pog. Rest same as -a. -z Pog, --zip=Pog All the fonts inside Pog will be zipped and the zipfile will be named after the Pog. The file will be placed in the current direc- tory. --version Show program's version number and exit. -h, --help Show help message and exit. SEE ALSO
Homepage: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython> AUTHOR
fontypython was written by Donn.C.Ingle <donn.ingle@gmail.com>. This manual page was updated by Donn Ingle in October 2009. It was originally written by Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 2009-09-28 FONTYPYTHON(1)
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mkfontdir(1X) mkfontdir(1X) NAME
mkfontdir, fonts.dir, fonts.scale, fonts.alias - create an index of X font files in a directory SYNOPSIS
mkfontdir [directory-name...] DESCRIPTION
For each directory argument, mkfontdir reads all of the font files in the directory searching for properties named "FONT", or (failing that) the name of the file stripped of its suffix. These are converted to lower case and used as font names, and, along with the name of the font file, are written out to the file "fonts.dir" in the directory. The X server and font server use "fonts.dir" to find font files. The kinds of font files read by mkfontdir depend on configuration parameters, but typically include PCF (suffix ".pcf"), SNF (suffix ".snf") and BDF (suffix ".bdf"). If a font exists in multiple formats, mkfontdir will first choose PCF, then SNF and finally BDF. The first line of fonts.dir gives the number of fonts in the file. The remaining lines list the fonts themselves, one per line, in two fields. First is the name of the font file, followed by a space and the name of the font. SCALABLE FONTS
Because scalable font files do not usually include the X font name, the file "fonts.scale" can be used to name the scalable fonts in the directory. The fonts listed in it are copied to fonts.dir by mkfontdir. "fonts.scale" has the same format as the "fonts.dir" file. FONT NAME ALIASES
The file "fonts.alias", which can be put in any directory of the font-path, is used to map new names to existing fonts, and should be edited by hand. The format is two white-space separated columns, the first containing aliases and the second containing font-name pat- terns. Lines beginning with "!" are comment lines and are ignored. If neither the alias nor the value specifies the size fields of the font name, this is a scalable alias. A font name of any size that matches this alias will be mapped to the same size of the font that the alias resolves to. When a font alias is used, the name it references is searched for in the normal manner, looking through each font directory in turn. This means that the aliases need not mention fonts in the same directory as the alias file. To embed white space in either name, simply enclose it in double-quote marks; to embed double-quote marks (or any other character), precede them with back-slash: "magic-alias with spaces" regular-alias fixed If the string "FILE_NAMES_ALIASES" stands alone on a line, each file-name in the directory (stripped of its suffix) will be used as an alias for that font. FILES
List of fonts in the directory and the files they are stored in. Created by mkfontdir. Read by the X server and font server each time the font path is set (see xset(1X)). List of scalable fonts in the directory. Contents are copied to fonts.dir by mkfontdir. List of font name aliases. Read by the X server and font server each time the font path is set (see xset(1X)). SEE ALSO
X(1X), Xdec(1X), xfs(1X), xset(1X) mkfontdir(1X)