Re: print a sample of all fonts?

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:53:56 +0000, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:

> is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a sample of each 
> font on the system without manually writing them all out? tia.

Both answers so far seems to me only allows you to view the font one by
one, which involves a lot of clicking if you want a sample of each font on
the system. Check out

Use ImageMagick to document font
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/image/imagemagick/im03-ImageMagickAndFonts/ar01s02.html#Use_ImageMagick_to_document_font_1

for the 2 methods to document fonts via ImageMagick, one native, and one
char-map way. 

For example, to document all the fonts on the system, you can 

 slocate -ir '\.ttf$' | xargs -i echo 'convert {} /tmp/`basename {}`.gif' | sh

HTH

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