dfontmgr

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 27, 2001
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NAME

dfontmgr - GUI frontend for defoma

SYNOPSIS

defoma-id [options]

DESCRIPTION

dfontmgr is a GUI frontend for defoma. You can see the fonts registered to defoma, their hints, their status (which applications they are succeeded or failed to be registered), the applications using defoma flamework, information of the applications and the contents of their id-caches. You can also register a font by drag-and-drop a font file, with generating its hints as much as possible by asking you some questions, unregister a registered font, change hints of and re-register a registered font. If a defoma-aware application uses an id-cache and if there's an identifier confliction (which means some fonts provides the same identifier) in the id-cache, you can set which font to provide the identifier.

Overview

There're two buttons Font and Application under the top menu which currently consists of File menu. If the Font button is chosen, information about fonts are mainly shown, and if the Application button is chosen, information about applications are mainly shown.

Font Information

There're three panes. The leftmost pane shows all font categories. When you choose one of the categories, the list of all fonts registered in the category is shown in the upper-right pane, and when you choose one of the fonts, its detailed information is shown in the lower-right pane.

Application Information

There're three panes. The leftmost pane shows all applications using defoma flamework. When you choose one of the applications, its information is shown in the upper-right pane. If the application make uses of id-caches, the content is shown in the lower-right pane.

Id Cache Pane

There're some buttons to control id-cache, one menu to specify which id-cache is shown, and a column list to show the content of selected id-cache. There're three columns: Type, Idneitifer and Font. The Type column represents the type of the identifier (either of RealName, Alias, User-defined Alias or Substituted Id of the font) with its status (asterisk and plus means the Id is provided by the Font). When you select one of the Id/Font pair, its information is shown in the Application Information pane (upper-right pane). You can resort the list by clicking one of the column title: Type, Identifier or Font. When several fonts provide the same identifier, you can force the specific font to provide the identifier by selecting the id/font pair and clicking the Install button. You can also force the specific font not to provide the identifier by clicking the Exclude button. You can clean up this forced status by clicking the unset button.

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