[Scribus] font browsing

Steve Callcott stotte
Wed Apr 14 16:48:36 CEST 2004


On Saturday 03 April 2004 01:51, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> the plug-in from petr at yarpen.czwaits for opening a document because EXTRA
> (where it is) is greyed out until such is opened. But... one should be able
> to browse what the fonts look like even BEFORE any doc is opened, no?
>
> The other preview, the python script, should have a choice for point
> size(s) to be shown, imho. I manually edited the *.py but lost the titles
> (:-(. need a choice dialog, please.

One of the planned improvements is to add a dialog to the font sampler gui to 
select the samples point size and also the actual sample strings to be 
printed out but unfortunately I have not had time to add this feature to the 
script yet.

It is quite easy to alter the font point size in the script but the height of 
the samples text frames may need to be adjusted too. The existing sizes were 
a compromise chosen to get 3 different fonts sampled in popular sizes onto 
each page using both A4 and the shorter US Letter paper.

> I show 589 fonts speedily. good!

:)

> bart at solozone.com

Steve Callcott




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