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Let something happen on your system. At first we move your fontfiles into the new fontbase-folder. You start fontlinge_base with the --move option and tell it where your fonts are stored. It finds all
your fonts in this folder and moves them to ~/fontbase/ - subfolder.You may just copy the fonts instead of moving them. In that case use the --copy option, not move.The fonts will be renamed to a human-readable filename. If it is not a one-file fonttype like TrueType or OpenType but multi-file like PostScript or MultipleMaster, all files belonging to this font are collected in a folder, also with a nice name. Never copy or move inside the fontbase. You always put stuff into then fontbase. ~/fontbase may never be the source-folder for a --copy or --move - operation. If you want to reorganize your fontbase, use a trick: rename ~/fontbase to fontbase.OLD and create a new fontbase from this folder. |
Additional options If you use --fontbase=~/myfonts, your fonts will be
sorted into the directory myfonts in your home
directory. The option fontbase=... in ~/.fontlinge
does the same, but has lower priority than
the --fontbase=... param.If you use the --fontbase=... option or the fontbase
setting in your ~/.fontlinge, you'll have to use
this directory instead of ~/fontbase in the following
commands.The --rename_otf option gives OpenType fonts the ".otf"
extension, so you can differentiate them from TrueType fonts (.ttf).
On a technical view, OpenType fonts may be called fontname.ttf, but .otf
is nicer ;-)
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Quicktip:
fontlinge_base --move /here/are/masses/of/unsorted/fonts/
or fontlinge_base --copy /unsorted/fonts/from/here/Never: fontlinge_base --move ~/fontbase/something |