1. NAME▲

defoma-font - register/unregister font(s) to Debian Font Manager

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

defoma-font [ options ]

register category font hints...

defoma-font [ options ]

unregister category font

defoma-font [ options ]

reregister category font hints...

defoma-font [ options ]

purge category font

defoma-font [ options ]

register-all hintfile

defoma-font [ options ]

unregister-all hintfile

defoma-font [ options ]

reregister-all hintfile

defoma-font [ options ]

purge-all hintfile

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

defoma-font is a tool to register or unregister font(s) to Defoma, Debian Font Manager. Defoma then calls Defoma-configuration-scripts provided by applications to make the font(s) configured for the applications which can make use of them. It is supposed to be called from postinst and prerm scripts, but may be called from console for not-packaged addon fonts.

There are two methods of registering/unregistering font(s): by specifying one font with its hints, or through a hintfile, which describes several fonts with their hints. Font packages may possibly use the latter method, installing a hintfileunder /etc/defoma/hints as conffile. The latter method has '-all' added in the commands.

categoryspecifies the category of a font like type1, truetype and so on. fontspecifies the font itself and is either a full path to the font, or a logical font name. hintsspecify the hints of the font, which contain essential information of the font like FontName, Charset and Encoding, appearance information of the font representing its face like Weight, Shape, GeneralFamily and Width, and additional information of the font like Alias and Priority.

4. COMMANDS ▲

register

    Register the specified fontwith the specified hintsinto the specified categoryunless the font is already registered.

unregister

    Unregister the specified fontwhich must be already registered in the specified category . If the font is marked as use or exclude in an Id cache of a certain application, the marks are left intact.

reregister

    If the specified fontis already registered, the registered hints and the specified hintsare compared. If these hints differs, the font first gets unregistered and then newly registered with the specified new hints. If the font is not registered, following process is the same as

register command.

purge

    This command is almost the same as

unregister command, except that this command removes the marks in an Id cache.

register-all

unregister-all

reregister-all

purge-all

    These commands operate all the fonts written in the specified hintfile .

5. OPTIONS ▲

-t

    Exit with true value (0) even if error occurs.

-v

    Verbose output.

-d

    More verbose output.

-q

    Quiet output.

6. EXAMPLES ▲

 
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defoma-font -vt register type1 /usr/share/fonts/type1/foo.pfa \\
   --FontName Helvetica --Charset ISO8859-1 --Weight Medium \\
   --Shape Upright NoSerif --GeneralFamily SansSerif
 defoma-font reregister-all /etc/defoma/hints/microsoft.hints

7. SEE ALSO▲

R defoma (1).