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Fontboy

© 1999-2003 Oliver 'Madison' Kohl

Introduction

Fontboy is a small application to show your installed fonts in Haiku. You can get additional information of the selected font and a preview of the complete Unicode charset. Fontboy allows you to adjust the appearance to your desired needs, and it's fast because Haiku is.

FontBoy screenshot

Features

  • Watches all your installed fonts
  • Browse the complete Unicode character set of a font
  • Magnified view of single characters
  • Drag & drop support
  • Tooltips
  • Highly customizeable

How to use Fontboy

In the main window, all installed fonts will be displayed with some sample text, their name, and the style. Single-click to select a font. Double-click to open the details window and get more information about a font. A right-click will show a menu where you can also open the details window or refresh the font list after installing new fonts.

The details window shows you further information about the selected font and a graphical view of its Unicode character set. The selected character in the matrix will be shown in a bigger view on the left side. Use the mouse or cursor keys to change the selection. Use upper right navigation buttons or PageUp/PageDown keys to change page. You can also drag & drop special characters to paste into inputs.

Preferences

To change the application settings, go to Edit > Settings.

Here, you can change:

  • The font size used
  • How many columns appear
  • The example text for samples
  • How the samples appear

Tips

  • Dragging & dropping a font file onto the main window sends an FFont object, but there are not a lot of applications that support it.

Contact

Credits

Splashscreen image by Thomas 'tHOM!' Einweg
Coding & additional graphics by Oliver 'Madison' Kohl

Thanks and regards must go to:

  • Dianne Hackborn (and others) for the FFont
  • Marco Nelissen for his BubbleHelper class
  • Eric Shepherd for his TPreferences class
  • YNOP Talton for SplitPane class