[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

[Martin S]

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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

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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


Regards,

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.

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

[Martin S]

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> 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).
> 

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

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