I was sometimes asked by collegues what font they should use for a document.
Well, Key Caps shows you what characters are available but you need a longer text to get some impression of what a font really looks like. So I made this quick hack called FontShow.
The File menu allows you to direct the output either to the video screen
or to the printer. After selecting either Print or Display you will first
see a list of all fonts installed in your system (or under SuitCase) so
that you can select any fonts you like to see.
The Options menu only affects the screen output! You can select either a
sample text, the well-known sentence "the quick brown fox..." in upper and
lowercase, or a character table. When you direct your output to the printer
you will always get all of this stuff printed out.
The Fontsize menu can be used to select the character size. FontShow will only display a font if the selected size is available for this font; it will
not scale fonts to that size.
You may change the sample text or string by using ResEdit to edit the resource fork of FontShow. The sample text is contained in a TEXT resource with ID 128. Take care that each line is terminated by a 0x0D character!
The program does no text length checking so make sure that your sample
text fits on the page. The sample strings are in a STR# resource with
ID 129. You may change or add strings but, again, no length checking is performed.
This program is distributed under the HAPPYWARE system: If you like it,
remember to SMILE!
Written 1989 by Rainer Fuchs, Am Weingarten 13, D-6000 Frankfurt 90, FRG
Bitnet/EARN: fuchs@embl *No rights* reserved!
____________________________________________________________ Changes in
v1.1.1:
- Now compatible with EZ-Menu (mouse clicks in menu bar disabled).
