Thanks! > No. The usage is > gnome-font-viewer fontfile
The usage is sort of that. Cr*p program. And please the gnomes stop saying it's all so efficient and no dependencies and very small - itneeded a raft of other lafallel too. Anwyay: > gnome-font-viewer --help ** Message: could not open URI could not load face '--help' > man gnome-font-viewer No manual entry for gnome-font-viewer > gnome-font-viewer xyz.pfb ** Message: could not open URI could not load face 'xyz.pfb' > gnome-font-viewer file://`pwd`/xyz.pfb As you say, no postscript output. Too bad it only shows English characters, this is a definite k.o. - that's where the first pile of font rubbish goes to /dev/null... Something which can show all the characters in a font would be handy too - there's usually no way of knowing. I'm not sure whether xfd -fn is trustworthy here. Btw the normal KDE font dialog is heaps better. kedit -> configure -> font is about the easiest, select any face, style and size, and you can change the sample text! For a printout, load your favourite text into kedit. Does need fontconfig though. > Like fontconfig? Depends. If it just works, yes. However, fonts do need to be installed, but it's reasonably easy and doesn't require much more than running type1inst. Nothing yet gives me a reasonable character sample and/or a complete character list... I could probably hack something but don't have a spare day. Btw ghostscript 7.07 is pretty lousy when it comes to pdf. The ps2pdf is faulty with quiet a few fonts. When viewing the pdf, ghostscript just dies, xpdf and acroread don't but characters are missing. Could be a result of the faulty ps2pdf conversion, the characters show fine in the ps. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
