NAME¶
update-fonts-scale - generate fonts.scale files
SYNOPSIS¶
update-fonts-scale [
OPTION]
directory ...
DESCRIPTION¶
update-fonts-scale assembles a
fonts.scale file in an X font
directory using one or more scale files found in a subdirectory of
/etc/X11/fonts/. It is typically invoked only from the
post-installation and post-removal scripts of a package containing scalable
fonts usable by the X Window System whose X LFD font names are not in the font
files themselves, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct
fonts.scale files. For each
directory, which is either an
absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably) simply the last component
of its path (such as ‘75dpi’ or ‘misc’),
update-fonts-scale will assemble either
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory
/fonts.scale or
/usr/share/fonts/X11/directory
/fonts.scale from the index files
found at
/etc/X11/fonts/directory
/package
.scale, where
package is the name of the package installing the fonts.
This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory.
No font package actually provides the
fonts.scale file in the X font
directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's font
names with those of another.
For instance, the two packages ‘xfonts-scalable’ (real) and
‘xfonts-nifty’ (hypothetical) may both install fonts into the
directory
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1. They each place their
fonts.scale files in
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-scalable.scale
and
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-nifty.scale (respectively).
update-fonts-scale concatenates these two files (as well as any others
that match
/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/*.scale) into
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.scale.
The format for
fonts.scale files is given in the
mkfontdir(1x)
manual page.
An example of how to use
update-fonts-scale in package maintainer scripts
is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
OPTIONS¶
-h, --help displays a brief usage message and exits.
OPERANDS¶
update-fonts-scale takes one or more X font directory names to operate on
as operands. Only the final path component of the directory name should be
specified; e.g.,
update-fonts-scale 75dpi
is correct, while ‘
update-fonts-scale
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ and ‘
update-fonts-scale
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi’ are not.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- COLUMNS
- indicates the width of the terminal device in character
cells. This value is used for formatting diagnostic messages. If not set,
the terminal is queried using stty(1) to determine its width. If
that fails, a value of ‘80’ is assumed.
- DEBUG
- determines whether low-level diagnostic messages are issued
to standard error output. A null (empty) or unset value indicates that
they are not, and a non-null value indicates that they are.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Errors¶
- usage error: one or more font directories must be
provided
- update-fonts-scale was invoked without operands.
Supply one or more X font directory names to operate on.
- usage error: unrecognized option
- update-fonts-scale was invoked with an unrecognized
option argument. Use only the options documented in “OPTIONS”,
above.
- fatal error: path to X font directory must be
used
- A directory name was supplied that was not an X font
directory name. Supply X font directory names only.
Warnings¶
- warning: absolute path directory was
provided
- Usage of absolute paths is deprecated. Use only the final
component of the X font directory name for directory.
- warning: directory does not exist or is
not a directory
- The supplied directory was invalid.
update-fonts-scale skipped it.
Notes¶
Notes are only displayed under special circumstances; see
“ENVIRONMENT”. above.
- note: index references nonexistent font
file filename
- The index file
/etc/X11/fonts/directory/package.scale, refers to a
nonexistent font file, filename. This is normal when package
has been removed, but not purged from the system. In other circumstances,
it likely indicates an error in package.
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- update-fonts-scale ran successfully.
- 1
- update-fonts-scale experienced a fatal error; see
the section on diagnostic messages above.
- 2
- update-fonts-scale was invoked with invalid
arguments.
BUGS¶
See the Debian Bug Tracking System ⟨URL:
http://bugs.debian.org/xfonts-utils ⟩. If you wish to report a bug in
update-fonts-scale, please see
/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the
reportbug(1)
command.
AUTHOR¶
update-fonts-scale was written by Branden Robinson.
SEE ALSO¶
mkfontdir(1x)
