NAME¶
fontmatrix - a powerful open source font manager
SYNOPSIS¶
fontmatrix [-h|--help]
DESCRIPTION¶
Fontmatrix is an open source font manager originally developed on Linux, but now
runs on OSX as well.
This man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the program's use. It's
main purpose is to make sure you can find the full documentation quickly and
easily.
OPTIONS¶
The definitive options are in the program's usage statement. Run:
fontmatrix
--help to view the usage statement.
- -l, --lang xx
- Overrides the system locale and runs Fontmatrix in language
xx. The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes that are
used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For example, English
can be selected with 'en' (generic English), 'en_GB' (British English),
'en_US' (American english), etc. Similarly, Deutsch can be selected with
'de' or 'de_DE'.
-la, --langs-available Print a list of languages for which user interface
translations are available. To use that language run Fontmatrix as 'fontmatrix
-l xx' where xx is the short language code, or set the locale environment
variables as described below.
- -v, --version
- Prints the Fontmatrix version number and exits.
- -f, --file
- Open the specified file. It's possible to simply pass the
file name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though if the
name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg 'fontmatrix --
-myfile.sla'.
- -h, --help
- Print a brief usage summary.
- -ns, --no-splash
- Suppresses display of the splash screen during SCribus
start-up.
ENVIRONMENT¶
Fontmatrix respects the standard locale environment variables. Others may be
used through underlying libraries, such as Qt, or by programs used by
Fontmatrix.
LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG POSIX locale. See
locale(1). Fontmatrix uses these three environment variables, in the
listed order of precedence, to select the language (including the user
interface translation) to use. If none are set, it will fall back on the
locale set by the underlying Qt library.
- PATH
- Fontmatrix may search the PATH for external tools if their
paths are not specified absolutely. This is currently most likely to
affect you if you have multiple copies of fontforge(1) installed. You can
set an absolute path to the correct fontforge(1) in your Fontmatrix
preferences and bypass the PATH search.
A few important environment variables from other programs are summarised here
for convenience, though you should check the original program's documentation
if you are having trouble.
FILES¶
- $HOME/.fontmatrix/
- User preferences are stored in $HOME/.fontmatrix/ on Unix
or Linux. Most other paths are configurable from the Fontmatrix
preferences. $HOME/.fonts/
- $HOME/.fonts.conf
- /etc/fonts
- Fontconfig, the library used by Fontmatrix to locate fonts,
is normally configured with files in /etc/fonts, mainly
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf . It may also use a config
file $HOME/.fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/ . See fonts.conf(5) and
the fontconfig documentation for more information. Note that Fontmatrix
may also use its internal font path to locate more fonts - see the
Preferences dialog and fontmatrix help.
Scribus -
http://www.scribus.net
Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on
http://www.fontmatrix.net/
BUGS¶
See
https://gna.org/bugs/?group=undertype for the Fontmatrix on-line
status tracker, which is used to track bug reports and feature requests.
If
you intend to submit a bug report or feature request, please search the bug
database first.
AUTHORS¶
Please see the About Fontmatrix option in the Help menu for a list of authors,
translators, and contributors.
