Fontmatrix

From LGM/Montréal Thanks to Nicolas Spalinger, Debian, and thus Ubuntu users, will be able to easily follow latest developments in Fontmatrix by the help of brand new set of instructions. Enjoy… and please feedback.

…Mac users, there’s a new (Intel only) DMG. Here You can thanks MrB for this.

One is an answer to a feature request : fm_match_raster.ogv The second a pure bonus, a complete fontmatrix.conf :)

This has been the immediate concern of my teammates when I presented a video clip demonstrating an extract-font-from-pdf prototype. To avoid any misconsceptions, I want to make things crystal clear right now. While it’s theorically possible to reuse such an extracted font, there are two issues to keep in mind: read more

It has been tough, it’s not at all finished, but here we are, we’ve plugged Fontmatrix into Python. Or the reverse, who knows? The plan is now to first expose completely FontItem, which is the internal representation of a font, and the database ... [More] wrapper. While it’s technically almost done, it’s now a matter of documenting the whole thing and let users play with it. read more [Less]

First of all, it worth noticing a couple of things about Fontmatrix under Linux. Fontmatrix relies on Fontconfig for font management. If you use an application which is not fc-aware (e.g. TeX), Fontmatrix can’t do nothing for you. To be precise ... [More] , Fontmatrix uses the fact that Fontconfig provides a user level configuration. What it does exactly is to symlink fonts which you want to activate into a directory, itself being declared in the user configuration file (~/.fonts.conf). Deactivate fonts is thus just a matter of unlinking this files from the specific directory. read more [Less]

Few days ago, we made a Mac build to ease testing on this platform. It’s Windows turn by now! To be honest, building on Windows is not as trivial as on Unix-like system. So we are more than happy to thank a thousand times the hero, Jean Ghali, to provide you with this updated binary. read more

Although there’s no real difficulty to build Fontmatrix on MacOSX, we feel it necessary to provide Mac users with a snapshot of the Subversion repository. This build is still experimental stuff and does not pretend to replace your actual font ... [More] manager. Nevertheless, it can be used to view, preview & play with your fonts. And if you feel it’s promising, drop us a couple of bug reports! Download the universal binary [Less]

Here comes a meditative video from Pierre that puts newly created glyphs comparison feature to an interesting use :-)

Pierre created a screencast that explains how to use PANOSE classification function in the latest SVN revision of Fontmatrix.