Announcing: A TTF font manager for Gnu/Linux.
Hello all on the lists, I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me.
I am a designer and I missed the ability to view fonts, sort them into collections and install/remove those collections. It was an itch I simply had to scratch and I ended-up using wxPython to solve the problem.
With Fonty Python you can select ttf fonts and put them into "pogs" (from the word typography). You can place fonts into pogs from a folder or from another pog. You then install the pog you need. After that, you fire-up Inkscape and those fonts *should* appear in the font dialogue. You do your design, and when you are done and don't need them anymore, you simply remove the pog! It's there for next time. It really helps to keep fonts organized per project/client/job, whatever.
If you are interested in trying it out, you can get it from: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython
I am still "moving" into the Savannah website, I hope to have a short manual and so forth in the near future. The tarball (the download file) contains a README that you should consult.
Please let me know your experiences with it. I apologise in advance if it toasts your hard drive, looks at you funny and then steals your car :)
Donn.
Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me.
Clarification: I typed this badly. "The Font Thing" has nothing to do with me. What I meant here was that I can adjust Fonty Python to work on Macs.
Sorry.
Donn.
Donn schrieb:
Hello all on the lists, I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me.
Fine app!
Best,
Tom
Hi,
On 12 Sep 2006, at 21:58 , Donn wrote:
I have released a font manager for Gnu/Linux. Sorry Windows users - go and look for a free app called "The Font Thing" it rocks. I can adjust it to work on Mac OS-X, but will need a volunteer to help me.
I have looking for something like this on Linux for a long time. Thanks! Some remarks: - in connection to Inkscape: it would help not to clutter the font selection menu if fonts collections could appear in it. If you haven't seen the font selection panel of mac os X, this is what I am talking about. see: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/font/ macosx103-1-1.png This and a search facility are really great. If such features could be part of Fonty Python or integrated in Inkscape (or even in GTK itself) it would really be great.
- in connection to mac os X: there is already a font manager integrated into Mac OS X (Font Book) and its features are similar to Fonty Python except that it can manage more than just true type fonts. Therefore I do not think that there is much room for a "competitor" here, unless both apps play nice together (ie. Fonty Python knows how to read and write Font Book font collections). Nevertheless your experience in enabling or disabling fonts under an X11 environment would be well used in "integrating" Font Book in X11. Currently, when fonts are disabled in Font Book, they are still available in X11 applications. It would be great to have them disabled also under X11.
Thanks again.
PS: great name BTW.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
Jiho, thanks for the response.
I have looking for something like this on Linux for a long time. Thanks!
No problem. I hope it helps you. It's primitive, but simple is good.
I am working on a new version that is a bit more responsive and will have a file/pog chooser from the gui. It may take a while ;)
Some remarks:
- in connection to Inkscape:
I am not involved in Inkscape development. When I read C++ code my head explodes. I just posted here because I lurk and because it's design + Linux related.
This and a search facility are really great. If such features could be part of Fonty Python or integrated in Inkscape (or even in GTK itself) it would really be great.
I agree - that would be very nice. I don't know anything about Mac OS, so I had no idea they built a font manager into it. That's pretty cool.
font collections). Nevertheless your experience in enabling or disabling fonts under an X11 environment would be well used in
Well, my "experience" is limited to tinkering with my $HOME/.fonts folder :) Really, I am no boffin.
From what you say about X11 on Mac, it sounds like the fonts in Font Book are
not being removed from the $HOME/.fonts folder. But, that could be wrong. I know that fonts under X11 and Gnu/Linux are pretty scary-complex beasts. There are all kinds of oddball files that describe where fonts are. It's likely that those files are not being properly managed by Font Book.
PS: great name BTW.
:D
Donn.
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