Ubuntu Manpage: fontypython - Find, view and manage font files of all kinds.

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NAME

       fontypython - Find, view and manage font files of all kinds.

SYNOPSIS

       fontypython [OPTIONS]... [VIEW]... [TARGET]...

DESCRIPTION

       Fontypython is a GUI utility written in Python and WxPython that will help you do font stuff on GNU/Linux
       system.  You can quickly view and filter arbitrary* TTF, TTC, OTF, OTC, WOFF or Type1 font files and then
       gather  them  together  into  'Pogs' which can be installed or removed as needed. In this way you control
       which fonts are installed on a per-project basis.   Fonty  also  includes  a  new  "Hush"  mechanism  for
       stilling  the  noise of system fonts. Use this when you want to work with only the fonts that you wish to
       see.

       If you have gucharmap or kfontview installed, (there is an option in Settings to choose  which  one)  you
       can view any font's character maps etc.

       *Arbitrary  means you can see and/or use any fonts in a local directory (or a mount). They do not need to
       be installed on your system.

VIEW TARGET

        VIEW  A place where fonts are. A Pog or a folder someplace. Also called a "source."

        TARGET
              A "Pog". A place to keep those fonts (just references to them).

OPTIONS

Below are some of the main command-line options. See help for all of them. You don't need to use them,
but they are handy. The program will run as a GUI if you only invoke 'fontypython'.

-h, --help
Show help message and exit.

-h b, --help b
Shows the basic help information.

-h e, --help e
Shows some %$@#$ examples!

-h hush, --help hush
Shows the basic help about hushing system fonts.

-l, --list
List the names of all the Pogs.

-i Pog, --install=Pog
Install the fonts in this Pog to your fonts folder.

-u Pog, --uninstall=Pog
Uninstall the fonts in this Pog.

-p Pog, --purge=Pog
Purge the Pog of font files that are no longer really there.

-c folder --check=folder
Check for bad fonts that crash the program. It will recurse through sub-folders. This will build a
file named "segfonts" in your fontypython directory. After using this tool, you should be able to
browse safely. (The reason it's not done by default is that it's very slow). NOTE: The fonts that
crash the program are probably still perfectly good and can be used in other apps.

-a folder Pog, --all=folder Pog
Puts all fonts in this folder into the Pog. If the Pog already exists, it will add only *new*
fonts, this means fonts are not repeated in that Pog.

-A folder Pog, --all-recurse=folder Pog
Puts all fonts in this folder and *all* sub-folders into the Pog. Rest same as -a.

-z Pog, --zip=Pog
All the fonts inside Pog will be zipped and the zip file will be named after the Pog. The file
will be placed in the current directory.

--version
Show program's version number and exit.

AUTHOR

       fontypython was written by Donn.C.Ingle <donn.ingle@gmail.com>.

       This  manual page was updated by Donn Ingle in December 2017.  It was originally written by Kartik Mistry
       <kartik@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                                    2009-2017                                     FONTYPYTHON(1)