Programs like Key Caps or PopChar will show you all characters of the fonts installed in your system, but it½s hard to get a feeling for the "look" of a font from these programs. That½s why I wrote FontShow. It shows you a "real" text with lots of different characters and numbers. Additionally, you can display a character table or the famous quick-brown-fox-string. Output can be directed to either the screen or the printer.
Should be compatible with any kind of printer.
Ñ The menus:
ABOUT
Displays an info box
FILE
Page Setup╔
Presents standard page setup dialog.
Display╔ (Cmd-D)
Direct output to screen.
Print╔(Cmd-P)
Direct output to printer.
Quit (Cmd-Q)
Returns to Finder.
After choosing either Print or Display a list of all fonts installed in your system (or using SuitCase) will be presented, so you can select any fonts you like to see.
EDIT
Not used in FontShow.
SIZE
This menu can be used to select the character size. FontShow will only display a font if the selected size is available for this font; it will not scale fonts to that size.
STYLE
You may apply several styles like bold, italic, underline etc. to the selected fonts.
OPTIONS
Sample text
Sampe string
Character map
You can select a sample text, the well-known sentence "the quick brown fox. jumps over the lazy dog" in upper and lowercase, and a character table. Initially, all three options are selected.
Ñ Customization
You may change the sample text or string by using ResEdit to edit the resource fork of FontShow. The sample text is contained in a TEXT resource with ID 128. Take care that each line is terminated by a 0x0D character! The program does no text length checking so make sure that your sample text fits on the page. The sample strings are in a STR# resource with ID 129. You may change or add strings but, again, no length checking is performed.
Ñ Copyrights
None. This program is distributed under the HAPPYWARE system:
If you like it, remember to SMILE!
I think it½s ridiculous to ask for money for quick hacks like this. It always annoys me when some guys want $5, $10 or even more for simple programs. This will corrupt the whole ShareWare system !
Written 1989 by Rainer Fuchs, Am Weingarten 13, D-6000 Frankfurt 90, FRG
Bitnet/EARN: fuchs@embl
*No rights* reserved!
Ñ Known bugs
On systems with lots of LaserWriter download fonts the printer½s RAM buffer may overflow. Maybe someone can explain to me how to clear the buffer when a new font is sent to the printer ?!
