2. Managing Fonts on your System with DrakFont

Abstract

This system sdministration tool enables you to review the different font families, styles, and sizes available on your system. It also allows for fonts to installed or removed.

The main window (see Figure 8.2, “DrakFont's Main Window”) shows a visual appearance of the currently selected font combination.

Figure 8.2. DrakFont's Main Window

DrakFont's Main Window

drakfont is made up of a number of dialogs which are accessible through the buttons located at the bottom.

Get Windows Fonts

This button automatically adds fonts found on your Windows® partitions, if any, of your local hard drives.

Options

Allows you to specify which applications and devices (such as printers) will support the fonts. Select the ones you want support for and click on the OK button.

Uninstall

Allows you to remove installed fonts, in order to save space for example. Use this with great care, it could have side effects for your applications. In particular you should not remove fonts you did not install yourself.

This actually removes all fonts found in a given directory. Note that fonts manually added through drakfont are found in /usr/share/fonts/drakfont/

Import

Allows you to manually add fonts found outside the Mandriva Linux distribution, from a fonts disk you have purchased or from the Internet, for example. Supported font types are ttf, pfa, pfb, pcf, pfm, gsf. Clicking on the Add button will open a standard dialog allowing you to specify the font file to import. Once you've specified all the fonts you want to import, click on the Install fonts button.

[Tip] Selecting more than one font

To select more than one font, press the CTRL key while selecting the fonts you want to install and click OK, they will be added to the Import Fonts window. Then, click on the Install fonts button.

[Note] Note

When adding or removing fonts, the change might not appear immediately in the fonts list. Close and re-launch drakfont to ensure your changes were taken into account.