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update-fonts-scale !!!update-fonts-scale NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHOR ---- !!NAME update-fonts-scale - compile fonts.scale files !!SYNOPSIS __update-fonts-scale__ ''directory ...'' !!DESCRIPTION __update-fonts-scale__ assembles a ''fonts.scale'' file in an X font directory using one or more scale files found in a subdirectory of ''/etc/X11/fonts/''. It is typically invoked only from the post-installation and post-removal scripts of a ''package'' containing scalable fonts (whose X LFD font names are not in the font files themselves) for the X Window System, but may be invoked at any time to reconstruct ''fonts.scale'' 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-scale__ will assemble ''/usr/lib/X11/fonts/''directory''/fonts.scale'' from the files found in ''/etc/X11/fonts/''directory''/''package''.scale''. This enables multiple packages to provide names for fonts in the same directory. No font package actually provides the ''fonts.scale'' 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/Type1''. They each place their ''fonts.scale'' files in ''/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-scalable.scale'' and ''/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/xfonts-nifty.scale'' (respectively). __update-fonts-scale__ concatenates these two files (as well as any others that match ''/etc/X11/fonts/Type1/*.scale'') into ''/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.scale''. The format for ''fonts.scale'' files is given in the mkfontdir(1) manual page. An example of how to use __update-fonts-scale__ in package maintainer scripts is provided in the Debian Policy Manual. !!SEE ALSO mkfontdir(1) !!DIAGNOSTICS __update-fonts-scale__ exits with status 1 if its arguments are absent or invalid. !!BUGS See update-fonts-scale__, please see ''/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt'', the bug(1) command, or the reportbug(1) command. !!AUTHOR __update-fonts-scale__ is written and copyrighted by Branden Robinson. It is licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2. ----
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