View a sample of all installed fonts

Apr 25, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: justicart

I remember at one time being excited to find a "Create Font Sample" script -- it's in the AppleScript menu, under Font Book » Create Font Sample. I remember being disapointed to find out that it only worked on certain fonts. The only way I would be able to make it work would be to add all the fonts to the script.

Today I wished I had a sample of the couple thousand fonts I have on my system, so I decided to look at the "Create Font Sample" script again. Much to my delight, I found that, at some point, Apple fixed this potentially handy script and it now works. I don't know when they fixed it, but I'm glad they did.

[robg adds: I found that, on my machine at least, this script only samples the selected font families in Font Book. The first time I ran it, it printed exactly one sample font. When I looked at Font Book, that font was selected in the Font column. So I clicked on it (to make sure the Font column was active), then pressed Command-A (to select all), then re-ran the script. The script then created a new TextEdit document with a sample of every font on my machine. So if you don't get the results you expect, check the Font column selection in Font Book.]

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