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Geoffrey
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#1 Post by Geoffrey »

Looking around for a font viewer I happened across this small TCL/TK application that worked quite well, I found it Here.

To use it, use the mouse wheel to scroll the fonts and size, to change the sample text open the fontviewer0.3 file located in /usr/bin with a text editor.
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#2 Post by Geoffrey »

Found yet another font viewer, this one is online Here, to use locally just "save page as" you only need the fontBrowser-2-001.swf

To run it just open the fontBrowser-2-001.swf with the default browser or as in my case I use the standalone flashplayer mentioned Here.
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#3 Post by Geoffrey »

Yes another one, this is called fontasia, a python script that is a viewer and categorizes your fonts also.

Read about it Here
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#4 Post by Geoffrey »

Here is a java font viewer that will view fonts other than system one's, also views character maps.

download it Here
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#5 Post by GustavoYz »

Have you seen this one?

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#6 Post by Geoffrey »

GustavoYz,

I just had a look at it, it's a font installer , the view font part of it runs Gfontsel font viewer that is already in puppy.

When I need extra fonts I copy or system link them to /root/.fonts, no need to install them, by placing them there all apps can find them.

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#7 Post by maik.murks »

Hi Geoffrey.

A nice collection of font viewers you have there. For one or the other of your font viewers I like to create a link from somewhere here. Hope that‘s OK for you.

Cheers :wink:

Maik.Murks

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#8 Post by Geoffrey »

Hi maik.murks,

not a problem, I like your thread, not that I use a lot of different font's, but it's nice to have a choice. 8)

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#9 Post by vovchik »

Dear puppians,

As an interim solution, I added a preview kluge to pfont, so you can now preview uninstalled fonts: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 68&t=68854.

With kind regards,
vovchik

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