Hi Sebastian, Am Mittwoch, 15. M?rz 2006 17:11 schrieb Sebastian R?der: > 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.
Have you tried fontlinge? http://www.gesindel.de/page_whatis_german.php > > 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? Yes, AFAICT. > Same goes for the fonts that come installed with > ghostscript into /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript - are they required > for a working ghostscript? I don't think so, but these are high quality fonts I recommend to keep on your system. > > 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 Cheers, Christoph
