Does anyone know of a font browser?

elempoimen · 12-19-2004, 08:14 PM

I'm looking for a good tool to browser my font in Linux...both my personal font store and the system fonts. Does anyone know of a good tool for this?

leonscape · 12-19-2004, 08:40 PM

You can use Konq in KDE, just type fonts:/ into the location bar, and double click on a font to get a preview. Theirs also the font picker in KDE, which should always preview your fonts in any KDE program. and the Font Installer, in the control centre, also previews fonts.

elempoimen · 12-19-2004, 09:09 PM

Cool. But is there anything which will display them all in a list, rendered in their typeface a screen at a time? Like this: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/...ultisample.gif

leonscape · 12-19-2004, 09:26 PM

Would this be good enough? http://www.leonscape.co.uk/images/snapshots/fonts.png

( I get the large version by simply hovering the mouse over an icon ).

elempoimen · 12-20-2004, 07:31 AM

That's absolutely perfect! Thumbnail view in KDE, right? Very cool...I DO like Konqueror! Better than WinExplorer any day of the week.

Another question for you then, since you seem to have a few fonts installed...do you notice any system slowdown having a large number of fonts installed?

leonscape · 12-20-2004, 08:22 AM

I have no system slowdown because of fonts. The system has a cache, so all the font information is available without having to look through everthing.

Plus it only generated when you install a font, so theirs no overhead on the system at start up or anything like that.

elempoimen · 12-20-2004, 10:30 AM

Great! Sooooo much better than Windoze. Thanks for all your help!