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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 01:27:14 GMT
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- In <tlm.724294268@scl1.al.iastate.edu> tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro) writes:
-
- >In <Bz7wMF.M2M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- >Actually, you can do it in Yap. Load the outline file into Yap, then...
-
- >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
-
- okay, I looked in the Blue Book and the commands (assuming you want the
- font Western --- a particularly boring example to be sure :) at 48 point
- are to load the outline file into Yap, and then add at the end
-
- /Western findfont
- 48 scalefont
- setfont
- 72 200 moveto
- (this is a helpful posting) show
- showpage
-
- hit the "Execute" command and the test will appear at 48 point (adjust
- the scalefont to your preference).
-
- TLM
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-