Printing Font Samples

[jb]

I found this in HOWTO but wether it helps or not I'm not sure.
jb

Using Ghostscript To Preview Fonts
Once you've made fonts available to ghostscript, you can preview them.
Do this by running the ghostscript interpreter on the file prfont.ps in
your ghostscript installation, and after you start it, type: /Fontname
DoFont at the ghostscript font ( where FontName is the ghostscript name
of the font you wish to preview ). There are several other ways you can
invoke gs. For example, if you want to create a PostScript file that you
can look at in a nicer PostScript viewer such as gv, you can use gs
-sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=somefile.ps prfont.ps Having done this,
you can also print your output file.


On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:41, Asheville Joe wrote:
> I'm not sure where they are.  /usr/share/fonts has a ton of stuff, but 
> only the ttf's have a recognizable font name and there's very few all 
> together compared to what OOo (for example) sees as choices.  Some did 
> produce thumbnails.  I didn't see anything that looked like times new 
> roman (which I imported from windows) and can use in OOo.
> locate font produced 1000's of lines, most of which wasn't particularly 
> useful.
> 
> Joe
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> > what happens if you just browse to your fonts folder with konqueror 
> > (using icon view)?
> > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 10:20, Asheville Joe wrote:
> >
> >>/ From a konsole window (KDE).  I could login selecting gnome instead of 
> >>kde, but I'm not sure that would help.  The error I got was something 
> >>like ill formed url.
> >>
> >>Joe
> >>
> >>Cyber Source wrote:
> >>
> >>> not sure if it would matter but, did you open the nautilus window from 
> >>> with KDE or Gnome?
> >>> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:23, Asheville Joe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>/Didn't work in MDK 9.1.
> >>>>
> >>>>Joe
> >>>>
> >>>>Cyber Source wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> in a nautilus window with the location of fonts:/// and viewed as 
> >>>>> Icons, it will preview the fonts on the system, I imagine you could 
> >>>>> take a screen shot or something from there
> >>>>> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:47, Asheville Joe wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>/Is there an easy way to print samples of some or all the fonts I have in 
> >>>>>>MDK 9.1?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Joe/
> >>>>>>/
> >>>>/
> >>