[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Martin S]

I admit - I'm adicted to fonts.
Is there a font management app that's good under Linux?
I need to see what the fonts look like and be able to install what's not installed.

I found Fontlinge which isn't in portage and consists of a gazillion dependencies. Any more?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Philip Webb]

050831 Martin S wrote:
 Is there a font management app that's good under Linux?
 to see what the fonts look like

Gfontview  Gucharmap (both in Portage);
Xfd  Xfontsel (both part of Xorg).

 and be able to install what's not installed.

Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things ... (grin).

Apart from the basic  media-libs/freetype ,
the other font packages are in  /usr/portage/media-fonts .

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Martin S]

What I'm looking for is something like 
http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html
or
http://www.neuber.com/typograph/index.html


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Martin S

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Holly Bostick]

Philip Webb schreef:
 050831 Martin S wrote:
 
 Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what
 the fonts look like
 
 
 Gfontview  Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd  Xfontsel (both part of
 Xorg).
 
 
 and be able to install what's not installed.
 
 
 Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things ...
 (grin).
 
 Apart from the basic  media-libs/freetype , the other font packages
 are in  /usr/portage/media-fonts .
 

And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection
pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF
(assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work
fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice'
fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's the
Euro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italic
variants (which was the problem).

It's almost enough to make me wish I spoke/wrote CJK-- there are a lot
more complete fonts for Asian languages (and they're much easier to
find), than truly complete sets for ISO8859-15.

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Martin S]

And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection 
pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF(assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work
fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice'fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's theEuro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italicvariants (which was the problem).

Yes, sure I can do it manually. Something to manage 2000+ fonts would
be handy though, opening and closing KFontViewer for each and every of
those 2000+ fonts is a bit inefficient. Also, it would be neat to have
the fonts sorted into groups when searching for what font to use.
(I know I'm a fontoholic).
Regards,Martin S