Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:01:59 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Let me re-phrase this: Message-ID: <20080701230159.GA19052@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <87myl19t4k.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20080701011041.GA43264@thought.org> <20080701212708.GA16233@thought.org> <87myl19t4k.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:44:43AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:27:08 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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.
>
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