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update-fonts-dir !!!update-fonts-dir NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHOR ---- !!NAME update-fonts-dir - compile fonts.dir files !!SYNOPSIS __update-fonts-dir__ ''directory ...'' !!DESCRIPTION __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 ''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 ''/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. !!SEE ALSO mkfontdir(1) !!DIAGNOSTICS __update-fonts-dir__ exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid. !!BUGS See update-fonts-dir__, please see ''/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt'', the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command. !!AUTHOR __update-fonts-dir__ is written and copyrighted by Branden Robinson. It is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2. ----
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