Manage Fonts with Fontmatrix

December 6th, 2007 · Posted by Toor · 10 Comments

Fontmatrix is a font manager for Linux. With Fontmatrix, you can activate and deactivate fonts, add tags and generate fontbook.

Installing Fontmatrix on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

To install Fontmatrix from source on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, you can execute the following steps:

1. Install build tools, subversion and all of the dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion libqt4-dev libfreetype6-dev

2. Get the source:
$ cd ~/Desktop $ svn checkout http://svn.gna.org/svn/undertype/branches/fontmatrix002

3. Build Fontmatrix:
$ cd fontmatrix002/ $ qmake -o Makefile typotek.pro $ make

4. Run Fontmatrix:
$ cd bin/ $ ./fontmatrix

Then you can import fonts by clicking File → Import… menu item.

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10 responses so far ↓

1 Murali // Dec 6, 2007 at 10:22 pm

Successfully completed up to step 3.When $ cd bin/ command is given “command not found” is returned.How to run Fontmatrix ?
2 Maximilian // Dec 7, 2007 at 4:22 pm

3. Build Fontmatrix:

$ cd fontmatrix002/
$ qmake -o Makefile typotek.pro
$ make

The last step “make” should be done also..
3 Toor // Dec 7, 2007 at 6:34 pm

@Murali: Sorry.
@Maximilian: Thanks.
4 grzglo.jogger.pl // Dec 8, 2007 at 3:44 am

Zarządzaj czcionkami w Fontmatrix…

Fontmatrix jest linuksowym menedżerem czcionek. Dzięki Fontmatrix, możemy aktywować i dezaktywować użytkowanie czcionek w systemie, dodawać tagi i generować podgląd czcionek.

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5 Murali // Dec 9, 2007 at 8:00 am

That did the trick.Thanks a lot, Maximilian and Toor
6 Josh // Dec 10, 2007 at 9:28 am

cd src/ && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jadams/software/fontmatrix002/src’
/usr/share/qt3/bin/uic fontaction.ui -o fontaction.h
uic: File generated with too recent version of Qt Designer (4.0 vs. 3.3.7)
make[1]: *** [fontaction.h] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jadams/software/fontmatrix002/src’
make: *** [sub-src-make_default] Error 2
7 sean // Jan 18, 2008 at 9:39 am

gutsy binaries from scribus repo’s

# gpg –keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net –recv-keys EEF818CF && gpg –armor –export EEF818CF | sudo apt-key add -
# deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ gutsy main
8 user // Feb 10, 2008 at 6:21 pm

i got the fontmatrix003… and now in step 3 it says “Cannot find file: typotek.pro” i dont know what to do… any help?? =)
9 Toor // Feb 10, 2008 at 6:54 pm

@user: You can see also here: http://svn.gna.org/svn/underty.....03/INSTALL

I’ll update this post.
10 max stirner // Apr 29, 2008 at 7:29 pm

theres a ubuntu package available at getdeb.net

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