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Re: print a sample of all fonts?



On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:46:57PM +0000, T o n g wrote:
> 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

nice one Tong!

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