Fontlinge 2.0.1 review

Fontlinge project is a font management and organisation for TrueType & PostScript. Fontlinge searches for font files, sorts them i

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Fontlinge project is a font management and organisation for TrueType & PostScript.

Fontlinge searches for font files, sorts them into folders by name and look and with human readable names, stores gathered font information in a database, generates previews and posters, finds and removes duplicates, and reunites PostScript font families.

Also, Fontlinge has a Web interface to browse through your fonts. It shows detail previews and font info, provides font download as a tarball, and has the possibility to sort fonts.

Here are some key features of "Fontlinge":
find your fonts
rename files, i.e. from 'AGARBI.TTF' to 'Adobe_Garamond_Bold_Italic.ttf'
create a folder-structure
move the files to the right place
find and removes duplicate files
reunion postscript fontfiles
create previews

Requirements:
ImageMagick
perl >= 5.6
MySQL
PHP4 (>= 4.0.3) supporting GDlib and MySQL
apache supporting PHP4
Some Perl modules:
DBD:mysql
DBI
Image::Magick
Term::ReadKey
And several modules that are probably already installed:
Cwd 'abs_path'
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
File::Compare
File::Copy
File::Find
File::Path
File::Spec
File::stat
File::Temp
Fcntl
Getopt::Long
IO::Handle
POSIX ':sys_wait_h'
Socket
Time::HiRes 'usleep'
User::pwent

What's New in This Release:
fixed problems when using perl 5.8.0 in an utf8 environment
new fontlinge_base options --fontbase and --rename_otf
dupecheck statistics
new fontlinge_complete allows autocompletion for fontlinge options
code cleanup in WebGUI
new fontlinge_database_assistant option --dbadmin-user;
renamed --root to --dbadmin-password