ANNOUNCE: fontilus-0.1



Fontilus is a small collection of programs to help manage fonts on GNOME systems using fontconfig, such as GNOME 2.1 or Red Hat 8. It is available from:
    http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/fontilus/0.1/

The first part is a gnome-vfs module that implements a "fonts:" directory. If you point nautilus at this folder, you will get a list of the fonts on your system that fontconfig knows about. By dragging font files to "fonts:", you can install them for use (the font file will be written to ~/.fonts, which is in fontconfig's default font path).

To make browsing fonts nicer, a thumbnailer is included for use with Nautilus 2.1. When turned on, you will see a preview of the font as the icon in Nautilus. See the README for information on how to enable this feature.

The last program is a simple font viewer that is installed as the default application for Type1, TrueType and PCF font files. This program will display text rendered at various sizes in the font, along with some information about the font.

Fontilus requires gtk+, gnome-vfs, fontconfig and Xft2 to build. You will also want Nautilus installed in order to use it.

James.

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