FONTS-CONFIG(1)FONTS-CONFIG(1)NAMEfonts-config - configures installed X11 fonts.
SYNOPSISfonts-config [OPTION]...
OPTIONS-f, --force
Force the update of all generated files even if it appears to be
unnecessary according to the time stamps.
-q, --quiet
Work silently, unless an error occurs.
-v, --verbose
Print some progress messages to standard output.
-d, --debug
Print a lot of debugging messages to standard output.
--(no)gs-fontmap
Generate (or don't generate) a Fontmap for Ghostscript.
Can only work if the 'ftdump' binary which is in the 'ft2demos'
packages is available.
--(no)ttcap
Generate (or don't generate) TTCap entries. TTCap entries can be
used with the xtt module and with recent versions of the freetype
module.
--(no)ooo
Generate (or don't generate) font setup for OpenOffice
--(no)java
Generate (or don't generate) font setup for Java 1.4.x and Java
1.5.x.
--bcbwmax size
Maximum pixel size to use the byte code interpreter with black and
white rendering.
--version
Display version and exit.
-h, --help
Display a short help message and exit.
DESCRIPTION
Configures installed X11 fonts. Basically it does the following things:
call cidfont-x11-config
cidfont-x11-config is another little perl script which configures
CID-keyed fonts for use with X11, see cidfont-x11-config(1).
creates fonts.scale and fonts.dir files
To find the list of directories currently used for server side
fonts, /etc/X11/xorg.conf is parsed and merged with a hardcoded
list of directories. If the font server xfs is running,
/etc/X11/fs/config is also parsed and the list of directories found
there is merged as well.
For each directory from this list, the time stamps of the
directory, the fonts.scale file, the fonts.dir file and an extra
time stamp file .fonts-config-timestamp are checked. If not all
the time stamps are equal or any of these files is missing, the
fonts.scale and fonts.dir files will be updated as follows:
First of all a fonts.scale file is created by calling mkfontscale.
Then, the entries found in the fonts.scale file are merged with the
entries from all fonts.scale.* files.
fonts.scale.* files may be supplied by rpm-packages or manually
added by the user to override or amend the entries created
automatically by mkfontscale. Entries in a fonts.scale.* file have
higher priority than entries automatically created by mkfontscale.
All entries generated automatically by mkfontscale for a certain
font file are discarded if any fonts.scale.* file contains an entry
for the same font file.
If the xtt module is configured to load in /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
additional entries may be created to make use of the artificial
bold and italic features of xtt. The time stamp of
/etc/X11/xorg.conf is not checked, i.e. you have to use fonts-
config --force after editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf to switch between
the xtt and freetype modules.
After the final list of entries has been written back to
fonts.scale, mkfontdir is called.
Finally, the time stamps of the directory, fonts.scale, fonts.dir,
and .fonts-config-timestamp are set to the time when fonts-config
started.
If any fonts.scale file in the directory list needed an update and
the option --gs-fontmap is set, a Ghostcript Fontmap is also
generated for all scalable fonts in the directory list and the
result is written to /usr/share/ghostscript/*/lib/Fontmap.X11-auto.
call fc-cache
creates cache files for fonts to use with client side font
rendering via fontconfig/libXft, for details see fc-cache(1).
fonts.cache-2 cache files are generated in /var/cache/fontconfig
for all directories which are configured in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
and all their subdirectories.
Usually fonts-config is called automatically via SuSEconfig (SuSEconfig
--module fonts), which is usually automatically called by YaST2. But
you can also execute fonts-config directly, which is mainly useful to
debug it.
FILES
/etc/sysconfig/fonts-config
Default values for some command line options of fonts-config are
read from this file if it exists. The options currently supported
in this file are:
GENERATE_TTCAP_ENTRIES
can be set to "yes" or "no" and sets the default for the option
--(no)ttcap.
GENERATE_GHOSTSCRIPT_FONTMAPS
can be set to "yes" or "no" and sets the default for the option
--(no)gs-fontmap.
This can only work if the 'ftdump' binary which is in the
'ft2demos' packages is available.
GENERATE_OOO_FONT_SETUP
can be set to "yes" or "no" and sets the default for the option
--(no)ooo.
GENERATE_JAVA_FONT_SETUP
can be set to "yes" or "no" and sets the default for the option
--(no)java.
BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL
can be set to any integer value and sets the default for the
option --bcbwmax.
SEE ALSOfc-cache(1), cidfont-x11-config(1), mkfontdir(1), mkfontscale(1)AUTHOR
Mike FABIAN <mfabian@suse.de>, 2003.
perl v5.10.0 2008-07-23 FONTS-CONFIG(1)
