[gentoo-user] OT: font management software

2005-08-31 Thread 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

2005-08-31 Thread 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

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

2005-08-31 Thread 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-31 Thread 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

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

2005-08-31 Thread 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