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update-fonts-dir(8)
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update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files
update-fonts-dir directory ...
update-fonts-dir creates a fonts.dir file in an X font directory by
invoking mkfontdir(1) with the appropriate arguments. It is typically
invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a
package containing fonts for the X Window System, but may be invoked at
any time to reconstruct fonts.dir files. For each directory, which is
either an absolute path to an X font directory or (preferably) simply
the last component of its path (such as "75dpi" or "misc"), update-
fonts-dir will generate /usr/lib/X11/fonts/directory/fonts.dir from the
fonts.scale and font files found within it.
This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same
directory. No font package actually provides the fonts.dir file in the
X font directory itself, so there is no danger of overwriting one package's
font names with those of another; For instance, the two packages
"xfonts-base" (real) and "xfonts-nifty" (hypothetical) may both install
fonts into the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, and update-fonts-dir
will ensure that the fonts.dir file in that directory contains information
about the font files provided by both packages.
The format for fonts.dir files is given in the mkfontdir(1) manual
page.
An example of how to use update-fonts-dir in package maintainer scripts
is provided in the Debian Policy Manual.
mkfontdir(1)
update-fonts-dir exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or
invalid.
See <http://bugs.debian.org/xbase-clients>. If you wish to report a
bug in update-fonts-dir, please see /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-report-
ing.txt, the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command.
update-fonts-dir is written and copyrighted by Branden Robinson. It is
licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2.
Debian GNU/Linux 16 Mar 2001 update-fonts-dir(8)
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