Fontmatrix in Linux

Article Title: Fontmatrix, Fontmatrix, fontmanager in Linux. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

There has always been a lack of font managers on the Linux platform, but this situation may have passed. The recent appearance of Fontmatrix is a more practical font management program. With Fontmatrix, You can activate or disable fonts in the system, preview fonts, and get a full picture of the fonts. In addition, Fontmatrix allows you to generate fontbook for word-sensitive tags.

Currently, Fontmatrix is still under development, but public version 0.2svn is available. From the perspective of my trial, the program is still stable. Fontmatrix only provides rpm packages and source code packages. The rpm packages can be used for Fedora 8 and openSUSE 10.3. If you are using another Linux release version, you need to compile it yourself.

To briefly describe the Fontmatrix compilation process, you first need to prepare dependencies: Qt 4.3 and Freetype2. Their development packages must be installed first. In addition, if you want to obtain the source code from svn, you need to install Subversion.

Then we can get the source code of Fontmatrix, download the author's archive, or directly obtain it through svn. We use the latter.

Svn checkout http://svn.gna.org/svn/undertype/branches/fontmatrix002

This will create the fontmatrix002 directory and execute the compilation process in the next step:

Cd fontmatrix002/

Qmake-o Makefile typotek. pro

Make

Now go to the bin directory to run Fontmatrix:

Cd bin/

./Fontmatrix