BUILDAFMDIR(1)

NAME

buildafmdir − builds font index information

SYNOPSIS

buildafmdir [-c] directory

DESCRIPTION

Information about what fonts are available in a given Fonts directory is condensed into an index by buildafmdir. This index is used by the FontManager in the Application Kit to do intelligent font conversion. The directory argument should be one of /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3, /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, or ~/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type3 (the three directories searched by the Application Kit and the Window Server to find fonts). buildafmdir creates a file named .fontdirectory in the specified directory.

Until a font installation application is available, this command should be run after any afm file is installed in a Fonts directory.

OPTIONS

−c current directory. Creates the cache files (.fontdirectory, .fontlist, .afmcache) in the current directory. This is the default if more than one directory is provided.

BUGS

buildafmdir is only as accurate as the information in the afm files (which has been known to be relatively unreliable).