Re: Which fonts a program uses

From: Stephen Patterson (s.patterson_at_freeuk.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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    On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:30:20 +0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão wrote:
    > - How do I discover which font-handling method a program uses ?

    I'd expect anything running under X to simply load named fonts from
    those that are available to the X server.

    > - How do I discover which fonts are installed on my box, or better put,
    > which fonts are available, to each font-handling method ?

    xlsfonts will tell you which fonts are available for use by X, from
    the listed FontPaths in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Its probably a good
    idea for you to install cfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi,
    gsfonts-x11 and msttcorefonts to get a decent selection of fonts.

    http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ could be handy too 

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