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Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: Gary S on June 26, 2003, 08:31:12 AM
Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2? Or maybe it's built in. I'd like to see what all the fonts look like at times.

TIA
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: kps on June 26, 2003, 08:53:26 AM
OS X has a built in font viewer that is available to all applications as a "service". It is up to the developer of a particular app as to how it's implemented.

For example: open TextEdit and with a blank document go to Format-->Font-->Show Fonts...

That'll open the font server window. In the Extras pull down window, you can get a preview area.

As I said, it's up to the developer of an application as to how you access this feature.
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: pendragon on June 26, 2003, 08:58:33 AM
Gary, This oughta help...

1. Open TextEdit
2. In the menu bar select "Show Fonts".
3. From drop down menu at the bottom of the screen that says "Extras..." select "Show Characters".
4. Now, select the tab that says "Glyph Catalog".
5. At the bottom of this screen are the pull down menus that allow both font and style selection.

Not too elegant, but the price is right.

Enjoy biggrin.gif

Harv

P.S. You can streamline things a bit by going to SystemPreferences/International and selecting the Input Menu tab and then selecting/turning on "Character Palette". This will put a small icon in your menu bar and you will then have ready access to the WYSIWYG screen.
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: bil207 on June 26, 2003, 09:22:06 AM
Gary,

  I use the freeware app. ILoveFonts. smile.gif
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: zodraz on June 26, 2003, 09:32:29 AM
On the "not cheap" side look up:

Suitcsae (Extensis software)

Font Reserve (DiamondSoft software)

FontAgent (Insider Software)

MasterJuggler says it's developing a product.

Adobe says it won't.

The new OS (Panther) has a new feature called "Fontbook" which may to the trick.

 smile.gif  biggrin.gif  smile.gif
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: Gary S on June 26, 2003, 01:46:48 PM
Thanks. smile.gif
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: taliesin on July 01, 2003, 01:51:11 PM
Thanks from me too.
The full features of the character palette went unspotted here until you pointed that out, Harv. wink.gif
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: Mrious_be on July 01, 2003, 02:18:46 PM
Yup, interesting smile.gif
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: Thomas S. England on July 01, 2003, 02:51:07 PM
The other day I wanted to view a downloaded font before I made the decision about installing it. None of my array of cheap font programs would show it to me.

What can one do?  OS 10.2
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: Paddy on July 01, 2003, 02:57:14 PM
Thomas, I'd just stick it in the user->Library->font folder and then have a look at it with TextEdit. If you don't like it, just drag it to the trash. No harm done. It only installs in one place - the fonts folder of your choice, so there is no chance of stray bits wandering about your system after you remove it, as there might be with some programs.
Title: Is there a WYSIWYG Font viewer for fo OS 10.2?
Post by: bobw on July 01, 2003, 03:01:15 PM
This feature  is built into Panther - Font Book