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. 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? Same goes for the fonts that come installed with ghostscript into /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript - are they required for a working ghostscript? 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
