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This guide is a result of a pm from diagrajamal1 here on GimpChat.
This plug-in is a little utility that I use every time I make a custom font. Windows does not provide a thumbnail image for xcf files unfortunately so this filter will create a small png image for every custom font file that it finds in the folder that you nominate in the filter dialog.
NB Please be aware that it will over-write existing thumbnails without warning!
A folder without thumbnails can be very annoying:
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_Folder_No_Thumbs.jpg)
After running the filter (and with the folder view set to ‘Large Icons’ view in Windows) at least you have an idea of what you did six months ago:
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_Folder_With_Thumbs.jpg)
The dialog can be opened from:
Filters>>Custom Fonts>>Utility Tools>>Custom Font Folder Thumbnails v.0.10…
The default options...
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_Dialog_010_default.jpg)
Locate the folder to create the thumbnails in from the drop-down menu on the first option and clicking on the item that says ‘Other’ and navigate to the folder location:
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_Option_1.jpg)
The remaining options are shown below with example images:
Text information colours option set to ‘No’.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_00_No_Options.png)
Text information colours option set to ‘Yes’ uses the current foreground and background colours...
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_01_Current_FG_BG.jpg)
Include custom font layers option set to ‘Yes’ adds a count of the number of custom font characters.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_02_Plus_Characters.jpg)
Include custom font kerning paths option set to ‘Yes’ adds the number of kerning paths in the file.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_03_Plus__Kerning.jpg)
Non-English information option set to ‘Overall information’ adds the number of non-English characters in the file.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_04_Plus_Overall_Lang.jpg)
Non-English information option set to ‘Language specific’ adds the number of non-English characters for each of the supported languages in the file.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_05_Plus_Detailed_Lang.jpg)
By default the background colour for the custom font characters is set to transparent but you can also use the current foreground or background colours – or use a linear gradient fill background.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_07_Grad_as_BG.jpg)
And finally you can also add a (black) dropped shadow to the custom font characters when the last option is set to ‘Yes’.
![Image](http://gimpchat.com/files/5084_08_Plus_Drop.jpg)
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