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# findsystem

Find system fonts (only works on Linux and Win32 at the moment)

`other.findsystem.``findFonts`(paths=None)

  Find fonts in paths, or the system paths if not given

  XXX Doesn’t current support OS-X system paths

`other.findsystem.``linuxFontDirectories`()

  Get system font directories on Linux/Unix

  Uses /usr/sbin/chkfontpath to get the list of system-font directories, note that many of these will not be truetype font directories.

  If /usr/sbin/chkfontpath isn’t available, uses returns a set of common Linux/Unix paths

`other.findsystem.``win32FontDirectory`()

  Get User-specific font directory on Win32

`other.findsystem.``win32InstalledFonts`(fontDirectory=None)

  Get list of explicitly installed font names

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