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Name

mkfontscale - create an index of scalable font files for X

Synopsis

mkfontscale [ -e encoding ] ... [ -f encoding ] ... [ -- ] [ directory ] ...

Description

For each directory argument, mkfontscale reads all of the scalable font files in the directory. For every font file found, an X11 font name (XLFD) is generated, and is written together with the file name to a file fonts.scale in the directory.

This fonts.scale file should be edited manually and then used as input for the mkfontdir(1) program.

Options

-e encoding
add encoding to the list of encodings searched for.
-f encoding
add encoding to the list of forced encodings.
--
end of options.

See Also

X(7) , Xserver(1) , mkfontdir(1) , ttmkfdir(1) , xfs(1) , xset(1)

Notes

mkfontscale will overwrite any fonts.scale file even if it has been hand-edited.

Author

mkfontscale was written by Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@xfree86.org> for the XFree86 project. The inspiration for this program came from the ttmkfdir utility by Joerg Pommnitz.


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