Abstract
This tool enables you to review the different
font families, styles, and sizes available on your system. It also allows
the system administrator to install new fonts.
The main window (see Figure 5.7, “DrakFont's Main Window”) shows a visual appearance of the currently selected font combination.
drakfont is made up of a number of windows which are accessible through the buttons located at the bottom-left corner.
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 button.
Allows you to remove installed fonts, in order to save space for example. Use this with great care, it could have side effects on your applications. You should notably not remove fonts you did not install yourself.
Allows you to manually add
fonts found outside the Mandrakelinux distribution, on a local
Windows® installation or from the Internet, for example.
Supported font types are ttf
,
pfa
, pfb
,
pcf
, pfm
,
gsf
. Clicking on the
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
button.