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More on my Windows Font Preview Application

I got some feedback from you guys via email on the Windows Font Preview Application, I wrote about yesterday. I like that *g*

So, I decided to spend some more time on it and I ask you for input. What features would you like to see? Following a list of features I am thinking about implementing:

Preview font files without installing them on the system, permanently
Allow for filtering fonts when looking for a special one for your next essay
Show some detailed information about the installed font
Enumerate dependend fonts (eg: character set sub-font, real bold/italic/etc. versions)
Quick preview of all fonts in list

What (else) would you like? Drop me an email or leave a comment here.

Development | Development (English) | English | Windows

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:29:22 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:32:06 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

is there any method for detecting whether a font is serif or sans serif ?

Also your program font preview section (bottom of the program) is corrupting when dragging your program window outside of the desktop.Like a repaint problem...

ahmet

Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:29:15 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

I've been searching for a tool with which I can quickly preview lots of ttf fonts, which aren't installed in the %WINDOWS%\Fonts folder yet (possibly with an option to install the selected font(s) right from the previewer). Rationale : I've downloaded a set of about 9000 fonts, but installing them all would show me a way to many entries in font-dropdown boxes.

Yours looks like a candidate, if folder-selection and an 'install' button was added. Is that feasible?

Oh, and I presume the preview-text can be resetted to 'Lorem ipsum' or 'The quick brown fox'?

Patrick van Logchem

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