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Another neat font tool for the Terminal-ly impaired
Authored by: Bookman on Nov 29, '04 10:58:20AM

The existence of the command line font tools are indeed a fine thing, but those "graphically orientated" individuals out there (like me) should also know about the Font Sampler script. When run, this AppleScript (found at /Applications/AppleScript/Example Scripts/Info Scripts/Font Sampler.scpt) creates an RTF file showing samples of all of the fonts installed on your system. Double click on Font Sampler.scpt to open the script in Script Editor, click Run, and it will build the document and convert the font samples before your eyes--fun to watch.

Rob alluded to this script way back in the year '01 in this hint.

--Books

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Another neat font tool for the Terminal-ly impaired
Authored by: grondin on Nov 29, '04 12:30:56PM
I don't know AppleScript, but the
set the font_list to {"American Typewriter",...
line tells me that this script only returns a listing of those fonts - not all installed.

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Another neat font tool for the Terminal-ly impaired
Authored by: Bookman on Nov 29, '04 02:30:44PM

You are right, of course. Those look like the Mac OS X-installed fonts.

One could manually (and carefully) add to the script the names of additional fonts listed from one's ftxinstalledfonts list. I came up with over 350 in mine.

I wonder if there is a way to automatically integrate the ftxinstalledfonts list with the Font Sampler script. Afraid that's way beyond my ken.

--Books



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