Comments on: Font Management for Ubuntu Linux

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:48:08 +0000

Thanks!

http://www.fontmatrix.net/linux

By: LSN

LSN — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:26:11 +0000

I use Fontmatrix for font management. It is simple. I can view the font and install it. Just what i need.
By the way, I gathered some of my favourite fonts to share specially with you. You can get them from my Dropbox http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5665850/My_fonts.tar.gz

By: HowtoMatrix

HowtoMatrix — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:42:25 +0000

[...] Font Management for Ubuntu Linux Posted by suvi under Graphics, Ubuntu New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Font Management for Ubuntu Linux As someone whose business also provides web development and graphic design, among other services, it was a real treat to bump into this font management gem (a few hours ago) “Fonty Python”. As the name implies, it’s a python based application used to manage fonts – Great if you have a lot of fonts that you’d [...] Link to the original site [...]

By: uniquegeek

uniquegeek — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:45:19 +0000

Thanks for a mention of the ~/.fonts folder; you came up on a google search. It helped me toast a version of Helvetica which looked horrible in web browsers.

By: UbuntuLinuxHelp

UbuntuLinuxHelp — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:23:16 +0000

@Donn

Thanks this is even better!

Appreciate the clarification – Have a good one!

By: Donn

Donn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:17 +0000

Hi, I’m the guilty party (the developer)

From your description above I suspect you might not be seeing the entire picture. Here’s a rundown:

1. You make ‘Pogs’ in order to group fonts (ttf, ttc, otf and type1) so that you can install them and remove them on the fly.
2. Once you’ve put fonts into a Pog, you select the Pog(s) you want to use and then press the ‘Install’ button.
3. The fonts will now be available to other apps (like Inkscape*) because they get linked into your ~/.fonts directory.
4. When you are done, you fire-up Fonty again and uninstall the Pog(s) you no longer need. This does not remove any font files and it does not destroy the Pog, it only removes the links to the font files from ~/.fonts — effectively making those fonts “go away” from the pov of the system.

* Some apps like Blender don’t even bother with ‘installed’ or ‘system’ fonts. When you choose a font in Blender it plonks you into a file-chooser and you go look for a font file. However, nothing stops you from pointing it at ~/.fonts, so you can still use Fonty to switch the right fonts in and out.

Hope this helps clarify things. Please go get the latest version from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython/ — it’s easy to install (read the readme) and it has a lot of improvements.