Good font manager?

eyolf · 2005-12-03 12:59:52

Does anyone know of a good font manager/browser for Linux? In Windows, I have several (FontExpert, Typograf, and the font manager plugins in Total Commander, the best program on earth, and what kept me in Windows for so long... :-) ), but I haven't found anything even slightly comparable for Linux.
What I'm looking for is:
- Access both to installed and uninstalled fonts.
- A preview function with easy access to the full character set - preferably also with a good quick-zoom function for single characters (e.g. click-on-character zooms to huge) - to a test text, and to full font info.
- Comparison utility between fonts.
- Installation of fonts from the program.
- The option to temporarily enable or disable groups/packages of fonts, so that, e.g. music fonts are not loaded if I only work with text files.
- Organizing such groups
Does this exist, somewhere that I haven't found? I'd be happy if it did...

Cam · 2005-12-03 13:37:17

Why the need for all that, are you a fontophile or is this in your field of work or something? I don't know any of thing like that existing, nothing with that much depth but then I couldn't imagine a need for all that and I'm using fonts on a daily basis at work though text isn't really a focus of my job.

The best I've found is this followed by this.

eyolf · 2005-12-03 13:45:34

Thanks for the tips; I'll have a look at them.
The answer is Yes to both of your questions: I am a fontophile, and it's part of my work.
I wouldn't really say it's THAT much to ask either... :-)

Cam · 2005-12-03 13:59:48

Well welcome to open source at any rate, feel free to start working on a font manager any time you're ready Neither of those do everything you've asked but Opicon is pretty decent compared to what you'll find

Dusty · 2005-12-03 16:34:46

KDE has a nice font manager built in, does it not?

Cam: That's a shitty introduction to open source.

Dusty

eyolf · 2005-12-03 18:28:37

No problem - I'm not new to open source. On the contrary: when I found that most of the software I was using on a daily basis was open source, I figured I might as well go all the way. I still have a windows partition left on the computer, but I rarely use it.
And if I could make a font program, I would...
About the KDE font manager: well, it's decent, but nothing more. As far as I can see, there is a font viewer (KFontView), which is the barest of the barest, and then the font installer in the Control Center, which is just that: a font installer, but not a font manager. Opcion is decent, but apart from the ability to view uninstalled fonts, it doesn't offer much, really. Gucharmap is another program which seems to come close to what I want, but still not all the way...

Cam · 2005-12-03 23:18:43

Cam: That's a shitty introduction to open source.

I was kidding and he seemed easily mature enough to see it as a joke rather than a "you want it go write your own"-attitude.

eyolf: Heh nice, I didn't even think of Gucharmap as being a font manager

Dusty · 2005-12-04 00:01:27

eyolf wrote:

And if I could make a font program, I would...
<snip>
. Gucharmap is another program which seems to come close to what I want, but still not all the way...

You *can* do it!!! :-) Just try. :-) Take this Gucharmap and see how you can hack it. You're a programmer, you just don't know it yet. 8-)

Dusty

atze · 2005-12-04 00:04:38

what about
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop- … 1632.shtml

Snowman · 2005-12-04 00:09:49

there's fontpage in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=2476
I also found wxFontView: http://www.pcbypaul.com/software/wxFontView.html

phrakture · 2005-12-04 00:23:32

FONTpage is good, but I haven't found one that works with both Xft fonts and XFLD fonts

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