Re: Grepping fonts for a specific glyph

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

> Use imagemagick! Something like
>
> for fontf in `mlocate -i .ttf`; do
>  convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 \
>  -font $fontf label:<Unicode_character> ouput_pic($fontf).gif
> done
>
> to produce one pic file for each font you have then check them out one by
> one visually.
>

Thank you, that was ingenious! Exactly what I needed! I made a short
script out of it, and I had to change the path-removal code:

$ cat showFonts.sh
#!/bin/bash

for fontf in `mlocate -i .ttf`; do
 convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 \
 -font $fontf label:$1 $(basename "$fontf").gif
done

One question, why mlocate instead of locate?



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