
gfontview displays a list of the PostScript and TrueType
fonts found in a directory.
For the selected font in the
list, it does a preview in the main window. It allows you
to display a particular character or a string in a separate
window, so that you can have several such windows for
several fonts and directly compare them. It allows you to
display all characters of the font (in several encodings
for PostScript fonts) in a window. All the glyphs in the
window can be further magnified by clicking on them
(magnification factor according to the mouse key pressed).
It can print a font sample by generating PostScript code
with a sample of the font at different sizes. You can send
this output to any PostScript printer or to ghostscript.
In the case of TrueType fonts, they are downloaded as
Type42 fonts. It can print a longer text in the selected
font; this way you can see how a text typeset in the font
would look, even without installing the font.
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