Re: Let me re-phrase this: [was:Re: which font previewer?]
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google)
and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all
the fonts i've collected. some are ghostscriptt, others are ttf;
others are labeled system fonts and the others don't show up
on the utilities i *have* found. is there a viewer out ther that
will display all fonts?
Hey Gary,
i think you are looking for the equivalent of some software in Mac / OSX ...
from adobe maybe? i have an image in my mind of a font portfolio... Corel had
(has? havent touched it in a decade+) a similar tool in Win32..
anyway, I assume you have used xfontsel, which seems to do what you want but
uses rather old style widgets.
Are all the file types you need supported by xfs ? If so, just install them and
access them directly from the font server... maybe even spend the time putting
together a PDF with the quick brown fox... in each font ? I wonder if TeX or
even some pdf library could be scripted to generated this automatically...
anyway... enough blabbering...
/usr/ports show the following promising tools:
x11-fonts/fontmatrix *
x11-fonts/gnome-font-sampler
deskutils/gucharmap *
print/fontforge (an editor, actually, but if u can edit, u can see them ;) )
print/gfontview
x11/xfd
x11-fonts/tkfont
x11-fonts/xlsfonts
there may be a few more..
* I am installing these 2 now just to check them out.. gucharmap is ok,
nothing wow. I can't tell how much coverage of all fonts installed it has...
let us know what you go with in the end..
B
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Re: Let me re-phrase this: [was:Re: which font previewer?]
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:12:08 +1000
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
x11-fonts/fontmatrix *
i've installed this one, and after a very quick run throught it, it seems to
work really well. It even allows you to create printouts of each font,etc.
whether it loads all and every type of font, i don't know. it seems pretty
complete, it even allows u to load fonts not installed in your system yet. all
in all a handy app...it stays installed! :P
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Let me re-phrase this: [was:Re: which font previewer?]
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:10:46PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Now that I'm learning to use the GIMP --*thanks* to the patient and thouhtful -questions members who have help me with Layers--now i need to find which typeface(s) looks best. i'd be much obliged for the top couple font viewer a apps so i can compare the bunches [scores] of fonts I've collected? i've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google) and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all the fonts i've collected. some are ghostscriptt, others are ttf; others are labeled system fonts and the others don't show up on the utilities i *have* found. is there a viewer out ther that will display all fonts? thnks in advance, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Let me re-phrase this:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google) and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all the fonts I've collected. Some are ghostscriptt, others are ttf; others are labeled system fonts and the others don't show up on the utilities I *have* found. Is there a viewer out ther that will display all fonts? No, not really. There are far too many font formats and locations to look for. A few of the things that may affect the places and formats the `font viewer' would have to check are: * Do you have PostScript fonts? * Do you have TrueType fonts? * Do you have a TeX installation? + Does it support OpenType or TrueType fonts? + Do you have bitmap TeX font collections? + What resolution do these bitmap fonts use? * Do you have bitmap X11 fonts? * etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Let me re-phrase this:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent hours looking around (both in ports and via Google) and haven't found a font viewer that will let me preview all the fonts I've collected. Some are ghostscriptt, others are ttf; others are labeled system fonts and the others don't show up on the utilities I *have* found. Is there a viewer out ther that will display all fonts? No, not really. There are far too many font formats and locations to look for. A few of the things that may affect the places and formats the `font viewer' would have to check are: * Do you have PostScript fonts? * Do you have TrueType fonts? * Do you have a TeX installation? + Does it support OpenType or TrueType fonts? I've got PS, TT, and TeX; never heard of OT. + Do you have bitmap TeX font collections? + What resolution do these bitmap fonts use? * Do you have bitmap X11 fonts? And dont-knows to the last three. At least I'm beginning to understand some of the issues, thanks Giorgos. --Another point-of-interest is when I tried to creat a blue italix font from the New Century SchoolBook class. GIMP couldn't do it at 98pt; it was probably the default of 18pt/px. Back to the drawing/image widget. gary * etc. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Let me re-phrase this:
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've got PS, TT, and TeX; never heard of OT. OT = OpenType. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
