wxFontView

version-0.4

A font viewing/image creation/installer. Uses wxPython to display system fonts and allows user to change font size, color, background color, font face and the diplayed text. Handy to view fonts and styles quickly, or use to make "logo" graphics. Also can be used to install/uninstall fonts on a per-user basis. (Does not touch system fonts.)

To run source script:
(Requires GTK+2-2.6, Python-2.4 and wxPython-2.6.)

Binaries have been built, tested and available below for Ubuntu-5.1.0 (Breezy Badger)- default build -- and Slackware-10.1, but with the wx/gtk packages home-built.

Download

SOURCE CODE (Requires: GTK+2-2.6, Python-2.4 and wxPython-2.6)
Filesize: 33k
MD5sum: cbf7a397b0c533c8b3607431c0b7bde6
wxFontView_src.tar.bz2


BINARY PACKAGES
Do NOT require wxGTK/wxPython
Just unpack the tarball and run the file "wxFontView"

Ubuntu Package
Size: 3415k
MD5SUM: 7eb25781bb32872edafee23bb7b92389
wxFontView_ubuntu_bin.tar.bz2






NOTES:

wxFontView will only install fonts to the /home/username/.fonts directory. This is in the standard search path for FontConfig, and save LOADS of possible problems that could arise by messing with the system font directories.

To display newly installed fonts the app closes and restarts. This can take several seconds on slower systems and on KDE and Gnome-based distros. (I use Icewm on Slack and it takes about 1 second. The same machine with the drive swapped for Ubuntu takes nearly 5 seconds. Your mileage will vary.)