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- From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them.
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:51:08 GMT
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- In <Bz7wMF.M2M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
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- >Ivo Welch writes
- >> [1] Is there an application that would allow me to preview fonts
- >> without having to install them first?
-
- >Instead of purchasing an application, you could stick them in
- >~/Library/Fonts and then only you would be able to see them, preview
- >them and use them. If they were okay, then you could move them to
- >/LocalLibrary/Fonts so the whole system could use them.
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- Actually, you can do it in Yap. Load the outline file into Yap, then...
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- uh..... I'm not a postscript programmer and have forgotten the commands
- off the top of my head. I have them written down somewhere and will look
- for them. Basically you say "setfont", type some text, and then say
- "showfont". I'll look for hte commands, but if anyone can fill in the lines
- it's much appreciated.
-
- hope this is helpful --- Tom
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