On Wednesday 23 November 2005 19:13, Creolophus WC wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know, if there are any font managers, like > Suitcase, in Linux (preferably free!) > > if not, is it difficult to write one? > > thank you > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Hi, Seconding Craig Ringer's reply, which I won't copy. I only add a couple of things: 1) Having used Adobe ATM, Font Reserve and Suitcase, I now much prefer the X-Windows + Fontconfig way of doing things. It is far easier to either a: drop your fonts in $/home/.fonts and let fontconfig find them or b: if you need a point and click install/remove application let konqueror and kfontinstaller do the work. An example of how to use konqueror and kfontinstaller here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts4 The magic of kfontinstaller is that is also automagically will create Ghostscript Fontmap files which allows Ghostscript to access and use your added fonts. Nothing else I have tried on Linux works easier or quicker. I comfortably manager 2000+ fonts on my system and keep between 300-750 fonts active, not for performance or stability reasons, just so I don't have to wade through huge menus of fonts. Cheers, Peter
