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6 fontmatrix - a powerful open source font manager
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10 fontmatrix [-h|--help]
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13 Fontmatrix is an open source font manager originally developed on
14 Linux, but now runs on OSX as well.
15 This man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the program's
18 use. It's main purpose is to make sure you can find the full documenta‐
19 tion quickly and easily.
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22 The definitive options are in the program's usage statement. Run: font‐
23 matrix --help to view the usage statement.
24 -l, --lang xx
27 Overrides the system locale and runs Fontmatrix in language xx.
28 The language is specified with the same POSIX language codes
29 that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For
30 example, English can be selected with 'en' (generic English),
31 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American english), etc. Sim‐
32 ilarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'.
33 -la, --langs-available
36 Print a list of languages for which user interface translations
37 are available. To use that language run Fontmatrix as 'fontma‐
38 trix -l xx' where xx is the short language code, or set the
39 locale environment variables as described below.
40 -v, --version
42 Prints the Fontmatrix version number and exits.
43 -f, --file
45 Open the specified file. It's possible to simply pass the file
46 name as an unqualified argument instead of using this, though if
47 the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg 'fontmatrix
48 -- -myfile.sla'.
49 -h, --help
51 Print a brief usage summary.
52 -ns, --no-splash
54 Suppresses display of the splash screen during SCribus start-up.
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57 Fontmatrix respects the standard locale environment variables. Others
58 may be used through underlying libraries, such as Qt, or by programs
59 used by Fontmatrix. LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG POSIX locale. See
60 locale(1). Fontmatrix uses these three environment variables, in the
61 listed order of precedence, to select the language (including the user
62 interface translation) to use. If none are set, it will fall back on
63 the locale set by the underlying Qt library.
64 PATH Fontmatrix may search the PATH for external tools if their paths
66 are not specified absolutely. This is currently most likely to
67 affect you if you have multiple copies of fontforge(1)
68 installed. You can set an absolute path to the correct font‐
69 forge(1) in your Fontmatrix preferences and bypass the PATH
70 search.
71 A few important environment variables from other programs are sum‐
73 marised here for convenience, though you should check the original pro‐
74 gram's documentation if you are having trouble.
75 FILES
78 $HOME/.fontmatrix/
80 User preferences are stored in $HOME/.fontmatrix/ on Unix or
81 Linux. Most other paths are configurable from the Fontmatrix
82 preferences. $HOME/.fonts/
83 $HOME/.fonts.conf
85 /etc/fonts
87 Fontconfig, the library used by Fontmatrix to locate fonts, is
88 normally configured with files in /etc/fonts, mainly
89 /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf . It may also
90 use a config file $HOME/.fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/ .
91 See fonts.conf(5) and the fontconfig documentation for more
92 information. Note that Fontmatrix may also use its internal font
93 path to locate more fonts - see the Preferences dialog and font‐
94 matrix help.
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97 Scribus - http://www.scribus.net
98 Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on http://www.fontma‐
100 trix.net/
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105 See https://gna.org/bugs/?group=undertype for the Fontmatrix on-line
106 status tracker, which is used to track bug reports and feature
107 requests. If you intend to submit a bug report or feature request,
108 please search the bug database first.
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111 Please see the About Fontmatrix option in the Help menu for a list of
112 authors, translators, and contributors.
113Peter Linnell Updated 2008-05-18 fontmatrix(1)