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# 7. Other Resources

## 7.1. Useful tools

The following is a list of programs that may be useful for debugging any trouble regarding the fonts, keyboard or the PDFs. Their usages are well documented in their respective man pages:

- xlsfonts, lists the XLFDs of the all fonts available to X.

- xfd, shows all the glyphs of a font when available to X.

- xset, resets various X options like fontpath.

- xev, detects and shows various mouse and keypress events.

- xkbcomp, besides other operations, prints the current XKB configuration in a single file.

- xpdf, a PDF viewer.

- pdffonts, shows font list of a PDF file.

- ps2pdf, PostScript to PDF converter.

## 7.2. Useful Links & References

- A detailed description of XKB, www.charvolant.org/~doug/xkb/

- A one stop mall for Unicode based Bangla on Linux, www.bengalinux.org

- The XFree86-De-uglification-Mini-HOWTO

- Font-HOWTO

- Fonts in XFree86, also supplied with the XFree86 documentation as `README.fonts` and normally found inside `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/`

- Bangla Localisation HOWTO, a good starting point for using Unicode based Bangla.

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