John Jason Jordan wrote: > People frequently bring up things here that are ancillary to Scribus. > Besides, Fontmatrix has virtually no documentation. > It looks like there is a bit more documentation in the 0.6.99 version in the help (that is what I meant when I said 6.0 version. oops). > > I installed it on my Jaunty x8_64 computer just by using System > > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager. However, I note that it is > version 0.4.2-2. And there seems to be a bug - I cannot deactivate a > font. Clicking on the check box does nothing. > That is what I did and got the same 0.4.2.2 version. I also tried to get it through the Add/Remove menu item and got the same result. That was where I first got it from. I also had the same results in not being able to deactivate fonts because clicking on the check box does nothing. :-( > I am not very skilled at installing from source. > I'm not either. At least not yet I hope. However I did finally get it. I just went for broke and somehow got the darn thing installed following the instructions the best I could.
I just followed the direction in the text file that came with the package that I downloaded to my system and a copy can be found here. http://svn.gna.org/svn/undertype/branches/fontmatrix006/debian-ubuntu-install.txt I went through the whole thing but couldn't see anything that indicated that it was installed. Or at least I assumed it did. I don't know what was going on during the process so I just waited till the prompt appear before keying or pasting in the next line. So then I tried typing in fontmatrix in the Terminal and low and behold it started up. It looked like it was going to be running from the terminal so I quit the Terminal and that shut down FontMatrix. I clicked on the Applications menu and couldn't see it listed anywhere. I right clicked on the Applications menu and chose Edit Menus and saw that FontMatrix was listed in the Graphics sub menu even though it wasn't actually appearing. I ended up doing a Restart and now it shows. I just need to figure out how it all works now. I did get some fonts tagged. I must say it isn't very "intuitive" (lots of people like to through that term around for everything these days it seems). But at least I got some fonts deactivated. Incidentally I found another font program called Fonty Python but that one wasn't much use when I tried it out. Anyway SUCCESS for a change. StevenD
