FONTpage - 2.0




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.

See the INSTALL file for instructions and dependencies.

fontpage.py running on Ubuntu 6.06
(works with no extra dependencies)


Changelog for FONTpage

  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..

Download



Source Package (26k):
MD5SUM   23b1ab72059e9e5512e309205a9f2c82
FONTpage_src-2.0.tar.bz2




Slackware Package (1095k):

This is a binary of the 1.0 version if you do not have pyGTK on Slackware. I hesitate to update this because my current installation adds a Cairo dependency (several libs) -- it is easier to fullfill the pyGTK dep on Slackware and simply use the source code version.

MD5SUM   1c3d8c7bd7db4320374196bbd25e781f
fontpage-1.0-i486-1PS.tgz