FONTpage

FONTpage is a pyGTK application with which you can:

* View truetype fonts on a system using fontconfig.

* Change font face, size, foregound and background color while viewing the fonts.

* Save a snapshot of your view to a png image.

* Install and delete fonts for the current user.

* "Display Font" opens a separate popup window with upper and lower case alphabet and 0-9. Multiple windows can be opened to compare font faces.


Overall:

Handy to view fonts and styles quickly or to make "logo" graphics for use in web pages.

Makes use of the Fontconfig utilities "fc-list" and "fc-cache", so you need an X-windows system with Fontconfig. Here are the requirements:

GTK-2.6
Python-2.4
pyGTK-2.6
Pango and FontConfig


 

As mentioned at the top of the page, the font install/delete feature only manipulates fonts on a per-user basis: it adds/deletes from /home/username/.fonts and runs fc-cache on that directory only. This is in the standard path for fontconfig, so it will always work. And this limitation avoids LOADS of possible problems :)

The images FONTpage generates of the font display are in PNG format. Obviously you can later convert/edit these to your tastes, but I felt PNG was the best (highest quality and copyright-free.)

As of version 1.0, FONTpage saves your settings between sessions, and automatically restarts itself and displays the latest font you install via the interface. Deleting USER fonts is also just a click away.

If you have any problems or suggestions, don't hesitate to email me at psherma1@rochester.rr.com. BTW: This one isn't really suitable for a Windows port, and anyway, there are plenty of Win font viewers..