NAME

       fontmatrix - a powerful open source font manager

SYNOPSIS

       fontmatrix [-h|--help]

DESCRIPTION

       Fontmatrix is an open source font manager originally developed on Linux, but now runs on OSX as well.

       This  man page only provides summaries of some aspects of the program's use. It's main purpose is to make
       sure you can find the full documentation quickly and easily.

OPTIONS

       The definitive options are in the program's usage statement. Run: fontmatrix --help  to  view  the  usage
       statement.

       -l, --lang xx
              Overrides the system locale and runs Fontmatrix in language xx. The language is specified with the
              same POSIX language codes that are used in the LANG and LC_ALL environment variables. For example,
              English  can be selected with 'en' (generic English), 'en_GB' (British English), 'en_US' (American
              english), etc. Similarly, Deutsch can be selected with 'de' or 'de_DE'.

              -la, --langs-available
              Print a list of languages for which  user  interface  translations  are  available.  To  use  that
              language  run  Fontmatrix  as  'fontmatrix  -l xx' where xx is the short language code, or set the
              locale environment variables as described below.

       -v, --version
              Prints the Fontmatrix version number and exits.

       -f, --file
              Open the specified file. It's possible to simply pass the file name  as  an  unqualified  argument
              instead  of using this, though if the name begins with a - you will need to use --, eg 'fontmatrix
              -- -myfile.sla'.

       -h, --help
              Print a brief usage summary.

       -ns, --no-splash
              Suppresses display of the splash screen during SCribus start-up.

ENVIRONMENT

       Fontmatrix respects the standard locale environment variables. Others  may  be  used  through  underlying
       libraries,  such  as  Qt, or by programs used by Fontmatrix.  LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG POSIX locale. See
       locale(1).  Fontmatrix uses these three environment variables, in the  listed  order  of  precedence,  to
       select the language (including the user interface translation) to use. If none are set, it will fall back
       on the locale set by the underlying Qt library.

       PATH   Fontmatrix  may  search  the  PATH for external tools if their paths are not specified absolutely.
              This is currently most likely to affect you if you have multiple copies of fontforge(1) installed.
              You can set an absolute path to the correct fontforge(1) in your Fontmatrix preferences and bypass
              the PATH search.

       A few important environment variables from other programs are summarised here for convenience, though you
       should check the original program's documentation if you are having trouble.

       FILES

       $HOME/.fontmatrix/
              User preferences are stored  in  $HOME/.fontmatrix/  on  Unix  or  Linux.  Most  other  paths  are
              configurable from the Fontmatrix preferences.  $HOME/.fonts/

       $HOME/.fonts.conf

       /etc/fonts
              Fontconfig,  the  library used by Fontmatrix to locate fonts, is normally configured with files in
              /etc/fonts, mainly /etc/fonts/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf . It may also use a config file
              $HOME/.fonts.conf and fonts in $HOME/.fonts/ . See fonts.conf(5) and the fontconfig  documentation
              for  more  information.  Note  that  Fontmatrix may also use its internal font path to locate more
              fonts - see the Preferences dialog and fontmatrix help.

RELATED SOFTWARE AND AFFILIATES

       Scribus - http://www.scribus.net

       Other affiliates may be listed in the footer on http://www.fontmatrix.net/

BUGS

       See https://gna.org/bugs/?group=undertype for the Fontmatrix on-line status tracker,  which  is  used  to
       track  bug reports and feature requests.  If you intend to submit a bug report or feature request, please
       search the bug database first.

AUTHORS

       Please see the About Fontmatrix option in  the  Help  menu  for  a  list  of  authors,  translators,  and
       contributors.

Peter Linnell                                  Updated 2008-05-18                                  fontmatrix(1)