On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:11, Sebastian R?der wrote: > Hi list, > > for a long time I have plant to organize and manage the fonts on my > linux box some how to make it easier to find the appropriate (good > quality) fonts for any task in apps like OpenOffice and Scribus. > > I know that Scribus has a good font management build in, so from > the Scribus side it's not a problem. However e.g. OpenOffice shows > a rather long font list and only gives the user the possibility to > ADD fonts, but not to DISABLE them. > > My main idea is to strip down my install to a bare minimun of fonts > (mostly fonts that are needed for the GUIs and such) and then add > all my high quality DTP fonts (from MS Office, Adobe Products on my > Windows Install) to a custom dir in my home. I can do the last step > by using the KDE "font manager". My question is whether anybody > knows a "real" more powerfull font manager that can show e.g. all > glyphs of a font, the kerning infos and some kind of > classification. I could only find such apps for Win and Mac.
I use this same method, with font families in a common directory. On average I run with ~ 200-300 fonts active, but have ~1500 on disk. Nothing yet solid enough to use in the same manner. I have seen a couple appear on sourceforge, but really just beginning. As for seeing all glyphs in a font, excepting Scribus' insert glyph palette - nothing besides fontforge. Kcharselect *can* show you the glyphs in a font, but will substitute missing ones from another font if they are not included. eg. Adding Latin alphabet in a symbols font. > The second questions is related to the fonts that belong to xorg. I > can finetune quite well which of them I want to install thanks to > the new modular release 7.0 of xorg-x11. But I am not sure what > e.g. the fonts in the dirs /usr/share/fonts/100dpi and 75dpi are > for. Is this only for display on the monitor? You need those core bitmap fonts for console. Try and remove the misc path and then startx ;-) > Same goes for the > fonts that come installed with ghostscript into > /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript - are they required for a > working ghostscript? Yes, they are and depending on how Ghostscript is built, they may or may not be compiled into GS itself. > I hope my main idea is quite clear now and other people that dealed > with font management on Linux can give me some tipps. > > Regards > Sebastian You are going about this in the right way IMO. It works fine for me too. Peter
