Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: <snip> > I know that X handles font management for your system, or rather XFM or XDM > handles it, sorry I don't have Linux in front of me so I am writing based on > memory. Is there anything like Adobe ATM for Linux? The way I understand it, > unless you have gobs of memory, it's not in your best interests to run a boat > load of fonts at any given time. Can you turn them on and off at a whim like > ATM does under Windows? Is if just a matter of editing a file or two and > restarting the font server or do you have to restart X?
Well, I'm not font expert, but AFAIK if you have Fontconfig installed you can drop fonts into the ~/.fonts directory and then run: $ fc-cache ~/.fonts to load them. You should also be able to unload them by moving them out of the directory and running the same command. If you are worried about memory it would be quite simple to write a bash script that would load and unload groups of fonts for you. > How is printing handled depending on which format you use? It appears that > Ghostscript handles some or all of this. How does that work in relation to > CUPS? I guess it depends on which printer driver you are using that dictates > what you are able to print from whichever application. I'm no printing expert either :-) but I don't think it matters what print spooler you are using. I think gs will convert a file to ps and then send it to the spooler to send to the printer. This page may give you more info. on these topics: http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/optimizelinuxdtp1.html Hope that helps some, Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
