[DONE] Font Management

[mark9117]

I have collected a lot of fonts over the years. I have gajillion or so TrueType fonts cataloged in a directory on a file server. Without some means of identifying them and seeing what they are, these fonts are all useless.

How do you folks that handle lots of fonts manage them? I've installed every font-handling related package from the repositories that I can find and still nothing I can use.

Help?

Thanks.

[tukker]

Hi mark9117,

You can try Fontmatrix. I use the 32bit .rpm from pclinuxos on my 32bit Mageia. See http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/pcli ... RPMS.main/
I don't know if the 64bit version works. See http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/pclinuxos/pcli ... MS.x86_64/

Greetings

[doktor5000]

Do you only need a viewer for the fonts or what do you need exactly?

[mark9117]

Do you only need a viewer for the fonts or what do you need exactly?

Fontmatrix is a good looking application for what it does. Unfortunately, I am looking for something that will allow me to view fonts prior to installing them.

Is there such a thing?

Thanks.

Mark

Edit: Looks like Fontmatrix is supposed to do this: http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/Linux%20font ... ations.htm

Need to figure out how.

Hmmm.

[doktor5000]

Well, usually most filemanagers should be able to achive that when you change them to icon mode and enable preview.
E.g. for dolphin you need to enable previews for font files, and when you open a font file, dolphin opens kfontview with that font.

For the installed fonts, there's also a kio slave, which you can access by entering fonts:/// in the adress bar of dolphin/konqueror.

Some other programs that should do what you want (not all available from Mageia repos):
- konqueror / dolphin
- nautilus
- gnome-font-viewer
- fontforge
- font-manager
- Opcion Font Viewer
- Font Viewer
- fontypython
- gnome-specimen
- fontilus
- gfont-viewer
- gwaterfall

[mark9117]

Well, usually most filemanagers should be able to achive that when you change them to icon mode and enable preview.
E.g. for dolphin you need to enable previews for font files, and when you open a font file, dolphin opens kfontview with that font.

For the installed fonts, there's also a kio slave, which you can access by entering fonts:/// in the adress bar of dolphin/konqueror.

Some other programs that should do what you want (not all available from Mageia repos):

Tried those, found them lacking. I have several thousand fonts (most of which look quite similar) and I need to get a pretty good look at them in context to find what I want.

In all fairness, I had about 5 minutes to fiddle with Fontmatrix. I didn't see an immediate means of viewing uninstalled fonts, but it looked as if fonts had to be imported into Fontmatrix before I could do anything. I'll see about installing those several thousand fonts when I have time this week.

Thanks for the tip and pointer to the rpm.


Mark

[mark9117]

OKay, imported 24,787 fonts into Fontmatrix. Fiddled with the preferences to get the catalog to generate and wound up with a pdf file that is 548 MB in size and 2084 pages in length.

It's not that I don't have the font -- it's just that I'll never be able to find it.

Thanks for the assist guys. I appreciate it.


Mark

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks