Chris Williams wrote:
>Thank you very much for this very considered and thoughtful reply.
>
>
Itching brains, learned a lot! ;-)
>Unfortunately, like others, you made the assumption that I wanted to force
>fonts down my users throats, and wanted to know the best way to do that.
>That is/was not my purpose at all.
>
>My purpose was being able to install a tool/toolbar/utility on selected
>systems that I (and/or my selected testers) have access too to find out what
>"that font right there" actually is.
>
>I would like to be able to look at several systems (or get screen shots from
>selected testers) and decide, hmmm... I really like that one. So, instead
>of specifying the font(s) I currently have, I would specify that one first.
>As font mapping is so unpredictable from one platform/browser/OS to another,
>this tool would save me hours and of work.
>
>But as it turns out, I played and played and played and ended up choosing
>something fairly generic (aka boring). I did so because I gave simply up.
>
>It would be cool if someone would write such a tool. But it doesn't exist
>from everything I can tell.
>
>Thank you again for your reply.
>
>
>>From: francky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding
>>
>>
><snip of extremely thorough and thoughtful reply>
>
>
Aha!
In the end I get it: you want a tool not for analyzing the output, but
for investigating the input. :-)
So I understand you would have something like a Font Recognizer. Or a
kind of ORC-tool for the screen instead of the scanner.
I think that is giving similar problems as I described before, and -
being not a font specialist - I guess there is no simple (cheap) solution.
The only things I can imagine:
* If you have a screenshot of a particular font, then maybe WTF can
help to decide what font is used:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
* If you have a particular system (or a limited set of test
systems), in which you like a screen font, there are some Font
Viewers to make it easy to view all installed fonts and see which
one it is. For instance:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ampfont.html
* And some links found on (Google'd with "free tool font recognize",
giving a lot more chances):
http://websitetips.com/fonts/tools/#idonline
Greetings,
francky
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