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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Path: sparky!uunet!lkba!lkb
- From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.051425.5780@lkba.uucp>
- Sender: lkb@lkba.uucp (Lawrence Keith Blische)
- Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb
- Organization: LKB Associates, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec13.114133.18500@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:14:25 GMT
- Lines: 63
-
- In article <1992Dec13.114133.18500@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
- Welch) writes:
- >
- > [1] Is there an application that would allow me to preview fonts
- without
- > having to install them first?
- >
- > <further>
- >
-
- Cut the folowing out and paste it into a new Yap document window, follow the
- instructions:
-
- %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
- %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
- %
- % replace the ? with the font name in the following line,
- % ex: (Helvetica-Oblique)
- (?)
- %
- % if it's not an installed font, paste the complete ascii font file here
- %
-
- /Font exch def
- /LM 0 def
- /RM 480 def
- /Hinc 30 def
- /verticals { newpath LM Hinc RM { 0 moveto 0 TM rlineto } for closepath
- stroke } def
-
- /BM 0 def
- /TM 720 def
- /Vinc 45 def
- /horizontals { newpath BM Vinc TM { 0 exch moveto RM 0 rlineto } for
- closepath stroke } def
- /baselines { newpath BM Vinc Hinc sub add Vinc TM { 0 exch moveto RM 0
- rlineto } for closepath .5 setgray stroke 0 setgray } def
- /center { dup stringwidth pop 2 div neg 0 rmoveto } def
-
- Font findfont 30 scalefont setfont
- 306 742 moveto Font center show
- 0 setlinewidth
- 66 18 translate
- verticals
- horizontals
- baselines
- /char 1 string def
- /i 0 def
- /inc_i { /i i 1 add def } def
- 0 Vinc 16 mul 30 sub translate
- 0 1 15 {
- 0 1 15 {
- 0 0 moveto char 0 i put char show inc_i Hinc 0 translate pop
-
- } for Hinc -16 mul Vinc neg translate pop
- } for
- showpage
-
- --
- Larry Blische uunet!lkba!lkb
- LKB Associates, Inc.
- 3118 Dunglow Road
- Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
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