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Article #1556Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them.
From: uunetlkbalkb Larry Blische
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:14
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:14
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In article <1992Dec13.114133.18500@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
Welch) writes:
>
> [1] Is there an application that would allow me to preview fonts
without
> having to install them first?
>
> <further>
>
Cut the folowing out and paste it into a new Yap document window, follow the
instructions:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%
% replace the ? with the font name in the following line,
% ex: (Helvetica-Oblique)
(?)
%
% if it's not an installed font, paste the complete ascii font file here
%
/Font exch def
/LM 0 def
/RM 480 def
/Hinc 30 def
/verticals { newpath LM Hinc RM { 0 moveto 0 TM rlineto } for closepath
stroke } def
/BM 0 def
/TM 720 def
/Vinc 45 def
/horizontals { newpath BM Vinc TM { 0 exch moveto RM 0 rlineto } for
closepath stroke } def
/baselines { newpath BM Vinc Hinc sub add Vinc TM { 0 exch moveto RM 0
rlineto } for closepath .5 setgray stroke 0 setgray } def
/center { dup stringwidth pop 2 div neg 0 rmoveto } def
Font findfont 30 scalefont setfont
306 742 moveto Font center show
0 setlinewidth
66 18 translate
verticals
horizontals
baselines
/char 1 string def
/i 0 def
/inc_i { /i i 1 add def } def
0 Vinc 16 mul 30 sub translate
0 1 15 {
0 1 15 {
0 0 moveto char 0 i put char show inc_i Hinc 0 translate pop
} for Hinc -16 mul Vinc neg translate pop
} for
showpage
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Larry Blische uunet!lkba!lkb
LKB Associates, Inc.
3118 Dunglow Road
Dundalk, Maryland 21222-5304 USA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!lkba!lkb From: uunet!lkba!lkb (Larry Blische) Subject: Re: Wanted: App to preview fonts without installing them. Message-ID: <1992Dec14.051425.5780@lkba.uucp> Sender: lkb@lkba.uucp (Lawrence Keith Blische) Reply-To: uunet!lkba!lkb Organization: LKB Associates, Inc. References: <1992Dec13.114133.18500@mic.ucla.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:14:25 GMT Lines: 63