Win fonts view

alc59 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:02 pm **(#1)**

little program to view installed window fonts
nirsoft.net

MareroQ · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:47 pm **(#2)**

You can also try:
FontViewer http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php
NexusFont http://xiles.net/downloads/#NexusFile
the call from the menu using the GIMP
FontSwitch_Win.py

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# The idea taken from RobA Shellout http://registry.gimp.org/node/24977
# FontViewer http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php
# NexusFont http://xiles.net/downloads/#NexusFont
# WinFontsView http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/windows_fonts_viewer.html

from gimpfu import *
import shlex
import subprocess
import os, sys
def listcommands(option=None):
  programlist = [
  ["FontViewer", "\"c:\\Program Files\\FontViewer\\FontViewer.exe\""],          #<<--EDIT path the program directory FontViewer
  ["NexusFont", "\"c:\\Program Files\\nexusfont2.5\\NexusFont.exe\""],          #<<--EDIT path the program directory NexusFont
  ["WinFontsView", "\"c:\\Program Files\\winfontsview\\WinFontsView.exe\""],    #<<--EDIT path the program directory WinFontsView
  ]
  
  if option == None:
    menulist = []
    for i in programlist:
      if i[0] != "":
        menulist.append(i[0])
    return menulist
  else:
    return programlist[option]
def plugin_main(img, drawable, command):
  progtorun = listcommands(command)
  command = progtorun[1]
  args = shlex.split(command)
  child = subprocess.Popen(args, shell=False)

register(
        "python_fu_font_switch",
        "Font Manager",
        "Font Manager",
        "RobA/MrQ",
        "www.gimpuj.info",
        "2011",
        "<Image>/Tools/Font Manager",
        "*", 
        [ (PF_OPTION,"command",("Program:"),0,listcommands())
          
        ],
        [],
        plugin_main,
        )

main()

Amanda47 · **Joined:** Mar 08, 2011 **Posts:** 155

Oh! I need one of those, I'm always having to type stuff out and look at each font for what I want...

Thanks guys!

bkh1914 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 31, 2011 5:54 pm **(#4)**

MareroQ wrote:

You can also try:
FontViewer http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php
NexusFont http://xiles.net/downloads/#NexusFile

Thanks!

The NexusFont viewer looks really nice. :bigthup

I've been looking for something like that for quite a while.

I had to read the help to find out how to view uninstalled fonts. (I have about 932 fonts that I only install as needed.)

The character map is very handy for getting the Unicode values for the extended character ranges. :yes

(You need those to use the characters in GIMP.)

MrBiggz · **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:48 am **(#5)**

Are any of these portable/stand alone apps?

It'd be nice if one of them were I could just stick it on my flash drive and wouldn't have to keep a whole heap of fonts for gimp to read through when it starts up.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14722 **Location:** USA

MrBiggz wrote:

Are any of these portable/stand alone apps?

It'd be nice if one of them were I could just stick it on my flash drive and wouldn't have to keep a whole heap of fonts for gimp to read through when it starts up.

Font Frenzy has a portable
http://www.sdsoftware.org/software/fontfrenzy/#more-16

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

MrBiggz, why don't you keep all your fonts in your windows system, that way you don't have to go through any fonts when you start Gimp. I have over 500 fonts, but none of them reside in Gimp.
Font Frenzy, CFontPro and many others are very good to have for viewing your fonts and also for uninstalling the ones you don't want.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14722 **Location:** USA

I think a couple of those other ones come as portable also.

MrBiggz · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:55 am **(#9)**

I have to apologize. I let this thread slip through my fingers, I never asked it to notify me. And there are times that the traffic really gets ramped up here at.

molly wrote:

MrBiggz, why don't you keep all your fonts in your windows system, that way you don't have to go through any fonts when you start Gimp. I have over 500 fonts, but none of them reside in Gimp.
Font Frenzy, CFontPro and many others are very good to have for viewing your fonts and also for uninstalling the ones you don't want.

My reason for not putting the fonts into windows was I was still under the impression that it was a drain on resources. It was a drain on resources in Win 98/Win 98SE/Win 98ME/Win 2000/Win XP. I did a little digging and with Vista and going forward you could put a lot more fonts on the OS. I did some were that you draw the line at 1000. It's the software that has to build a table of installed fonts. Which I find silly! With the power of today's PC's the software should only have to generate a preview of fonts on request.

The other thing for me too is I keep a whole host of PortableApps on my flash drive. So I can play at work during down time or when I travel out of town.

Now ..

Rod wrote:

MrBiggz wrote:

Are any of these portable/stand alone apps?

It'd be nice if one of them were I could just stick it on my flash drive and wouldn't have to keep a whole heap of fonts for gimp to read through when it starts up.

Font Frenzy has a portable
http://www.sdsoftware.org/software/fontfrenzy/#more-16

That'll work! So I see what I want to play with and dump those fonts into the folder Gimp reads on my flash drive. I take it all I need to do is a refresh from the toolbox to see the font I copied in?

I need a bigger flash drive this 8Gb is getting full fast!

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