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* [9fans] Visual font viewer
@ 2009-02-28  2:06 John Barham
  2009-02-28  2:08 ` erik quanstrom
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From: John Barham @ 2009-02-28  2:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Is there a program that will render some subset of a font file so that
you get a quick feel for what it looks like?

  John



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* Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer
@ 2009-02-28  2:14 Akshat Kumar
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From: Akshat Kumar @ 2009-02-28  2:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9fans

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One might make a script to create a troff file that includes some
sample text for each font in /lib/font, and make a postscript out of
it.
`page' on each subfont file seems like a lengthy task, unless there's
some way to include it all in one view.


ak

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From: John Barham <jbarham@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Visual font viewer
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:06:13 -0800
Message-ID: <4f34febc0902271806u599d5b48k15e24a94b00b6561@mail.gmail.com>

Is there a program that will render some subset of a font file so that
you get a quick feel for what it looks like?

  John

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2009-02-28  2:06 [9fans] Visual font viewer John Barham
2009-02-28  2:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-28  2:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28  2:13   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28  2:20     ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-28  3:02       ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-02-28  3:13         ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-30  9:05       ` frederic.bonfanti
2009-03-30  9:05       ` Frederic Bonfanti
2009-03-30 13:14         ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-30 14:05           ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-01 13:53 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-02 10:22   ` roger peppe
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