Custom "Text" view of all fonts
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 6:14 am
Hi,
I often run into a situation where I want to see a word or text in various fonts to see which one works best. I can easily do this in Word (eww) via macros, but the fonts have to be installed, which is not good.
It would be a great addition, IMHO, if FontExpert could take a "sample text" and render it via all fonts, activated fonts, group, or worklist and present them in a view/PDF/etc.
This would allow easy access to see which font should be used or activated.
Since I'm asking, it would be important to be able to (in no particular order)
1) Use our own text as the rendered text
2) If in a view, I think it's important to be able to zoom in more than 100% to see detail/ligs.
3) Have almost the same functionality of DB search so that you can include/exclude fonts.
Thank you very much. Loving the tool.
I often run into a situation where I want to see a word or text in various fonts to see which one works best. I can easily do this in Word (eww) via macros, but the fonts have to be installed, which is not good.
It would be a great addition, IMHO, if FontExpert could take a "sample text" and render it via all fonts, activated fonts, group, or worklist and present them in a view/PDF/etc.
This would allow easy access to see which font should be used or activated.
Since I'm asking, it would be important to be able to (in no particular order)
1) Use our own text as the rendered text
2) If in a view, I think it's important to be able to zoom in more than 100% to see detail/ligs.
3) Have almost the same functionality of DB search so that you can include/exclude fonts.
Thank you very much. Loving the tool.