Visual list of all installed fonts with respective pangram phrase?
fonts, linux, php
Solution
"Open the Fonts dialog (Windows->Dockable Dialogs->Fonts)
Right click any font in the list
Choose 'Render Font Map'
In the dialog that appears, leaving the 'Filter (regexp)' blank will list all your installed Fonts."
Source: http://gimpforums.com/thread-font-examples This forum thread clearly lists the steps for rendering a sample of each font in your GIMP library. I hope that this helps someone who stumbles on this question like I did!
Problem
I am tired of searching erratically the perfect font by scrolling endlessly with Gimp all fonts so I thought: "Why not build a visual list of pangrams for each font". I tried therefore building a php script which looked for .ttf and otf files in .fonts/ folder and which printed the css @font-face, however the result sucked because each font has its own quirks even under only firefox. ``` <?php $path = "/home/cinthya/.fonts/"; //get all text files with a .txt extension. $texts = glob($path . "*.ttf"); $i = 0; //print each file name foreach($texts as $text) { echo " @font-face { font-family: ".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)-26)).";<br> src: local('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text))-26)."'), local('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text))-26)."'), url('".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)))."');<br> font-weight:normal;<br> }<br>"; echo "#div".$i." p { font-family: '".substr($text,22, (strlen($text)-26))."', Fallback, sans-serif; font-size: 2.5em; }<br>"; $i++; } $texts = glob($path . "*.otf"); $j = 0; foreach($texts as $text) { echo "<div id=\"div".$j."\"><p>Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagen Eva quer über den großen Sylter Deich</p></div>\n"; $j++; } ``` Isn't there some stupid program which prints a nice vertical list of fonts examples by just only specifying a pangram and the folder containing the fonts? Or some way to do it? I know I should not ask for software suggestion but this is a necessity for which any quick and dirty solution would be helpful.