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maik.murks · Last edited by maik.murks on Thu 07 Jul 2011, 08:14; edited 1 time in total

Hi all together.

Some weeks ago I was looking around for a fonts viewing utility which has the ability to show fonts that not installed into Puppy yet. A utility that is able to show me the font of a CD for example or the fonts lying around in a directory a the harddisk. And I‘m pretty sure that this would be a very usable tool. But unfortunately I didn‘t found anything like that anywhere here in the Puppy forums.

But three days ago, I‘ve found something that could match my needs in the deeps of the internet.
It‘s a font viewer named ‚gfontview‘.

Homepage..........................: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/
Features list.......................: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/features.html
Download / Requirements...: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/download.html
Project page.......................: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gfontview/

Unfortunately my knowledge to compiling stuff and things like that is near to nothing. So, perhaps I can ask a favour.

Is there anybody here, who could be so kind and make a pet out of gfontview, that I can try to use gfontview in my puppies, please?

Don‘t know if this information is important for compiling, but the 2 puppies I‘ve running on my pc are an elder version of ClassicPup 214X and a LucidPuppy 520. And I like to give gfontview a try on both of them.

Thanks in anticipation.

Cheers Wink

Maik.Murks

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1433 Location: Ukraine

Dear maik.murks,

Don't hold your breath. Like you, I also think there has to be a font viewer that can show uninstalled fonts. The only one I know of is kfontview, but it has huge KDE/qt3 dependencies. Apart from that, there is nothing I know of. Gfontview uses gtk1 and was last updated in 2000 or 2001, so it can hardly be used in modern Linuxes, which no longer come with gtk1 libs and other old dependencies as standard issue. It would be nice if somebody could redo gfontview for gtk2 and a newer version of freetype. Or write a new viewer from scratch, which may be easier. If I have the time and get motivated, I may even do that myself, since such a program is really needed.

With kind regards,
vovchik

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6728 Location: hobart

Amigo has a link, to an already compiled package, in this thread. As mentioned by vovchik, being gtk1-based, you would need to install:

glib12-1.2.10.pet (53k)
gtk+12-1.2.10.pet (522k)
gdk_pixbuf10-0.22.0.pet (121k)

Plus, from the libs.tar.gz package posted by Disciple, libt1.so.1.

maik.murks · Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2011, 12:28 Post subject:

maik.murks · Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2011, 12:32 Post subject:

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1433 Location: Ukraine

Dear maik.murks,

Thanks very much for the wallpaper. I like it. Now I'll really ahve to get onto the fontview project. I found a little python program that displays fonts - but only previously installed ones - but it sets up nice font style categories for browsing, which is a nice feature. The first thing I will do is coax gtk/gdk into showing an uninstalled font in a window. After that, everything else will be largely mechanics (gui design).

WIth kind regards,
vovchik

maik.murks · Posted: Tue 14 Jun 2011, 13:30 Post subject:

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2290 Location: Queensland

If you don't mind using java there is Opcion Font Viewer v1.1.1, download Here

maik.murks · Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2011, 03:28 Post subject:

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1433 Location: Ukraine

Dear puppians,

I am studying how one might display uninstalled fonts via gtk. It is possible using calls to libfreetype and cairo/pango, but the business is quite esoteric. I have done some experimenting and the results are hopeful - apart from the rather frequent segfaults as I plod along Smile

. In the meantime, here is a revised pfont (originally by Zigbert) that makes use of a previewer that ships with the complete install/dev version of freetype. It is an ugly X-app, but it will show previews via pfont rather painlessly. The preview button toggles the display on and off (and the escape key quits the font previewer, too).

With kind regards,
vovchik

maik.murks · Posted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 03:34 Post subject: Re: Pfont version2 with previewer

maik.murks · Posted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 03:50 Post subject:

Hmm...

it's only about 5 minutes ago...

there were 2 additional posting before my last one...

and now these two postings aren't there anymore...

strange...

very strange...

maik.murks · Posted: Fri 17 Jun 2011, 04:21 Post subject:

Hi Admin.

Would you please be so kind and try to repair this thread again?

Thank you.

Maik.Murks

maik.murks · Posted: Thu 07 Jul 2011, 08:13 Post subject:

Hi all.

Since vovchik has made a tool called Pfont2 and has started a new corresponding thread within the desktop section, I mark this thread as FILLED according to the guidelines. You can find Pfont2 here.
Thanks to all of you who posted here for your effort.

Cheers

Maik.Murks