Fontmatrix
Fontmatrix is a manager built with the kind of features and
abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others
have felt
necessary, but modernized with some new touches. The software is
targeted at adventurous graphic designers and typesetters who need to
manage lots of fonts for their work.
Fontmatrix has a concept of 'tagging'. This makes it really
easy to group fonts and even sub-group them logically for use in a book
for instance. The software also has extensive graphical user
interface support for showing all glyphs in a font,
previews of sample text, variable sizing and also tells what kinds of
advanced Open Type features are inside each font. And not least, it
creates a nice PDF catalogue of user's fonts for printing or reference.
Fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals, but is intuitive and
user friendly.
The software relies on FreeType to render font samples, and on
Qt for its graphical user interface.
Fontmatrix 0.6.99
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Price
Free to download
Size
2.4MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Pierre Marchand and contributors
Website
oep-h.com/fontmatrix/
System Requirements
Qt 4.x
Freetype2
libanthy0
libm17n
libotf0
libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-xmlpatterns
m17n-contrib
m17n-db
Support
Sites:
Selected
Reviews:
Linux.com
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Features include:
- Attractive user interface which shows all the glyphs in a
font, previews sample text, compare fonts, and font information
- Activating and deactivating your fonts
- Tagging fonts with sets
- Finding suitable fonts by constructing simple or complex
queries, including using Boolean operators
- Refining the fonts selection by comparing glyphs in detail
- Generating font "books" in PDF format
- Toggle features of OpenType fonts for testing purposes
- PANOSE browser - the PANOSE system is a method for
classifying typefaces solely on their visual characteristics
- Playful playground
- Edit tags
- Python scripting
- Configurable shortcuts
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Last Updated Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 11:01 AM EDT
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