Free font mate 1.0 software for linux

Font Mate application helps you to see how fonts look on your computer, and it also helps you find symbol characters.

Using Font Mate

There isnt much to it: Font Mate shows you a list of all the fonts installed on your computer. Choose any font from the list and it will show you what all the characters in that font look like. Choose any one of those characters and you will see an enlarged version of it at the bottom of the page (with its ASCII code in decimal and hex, should you be interested). Click the button to copy that character to the clipboard if you want to use it in another application.

Works on...

We wrote Font Mate originally for Mac OS X, but we have included versions for Windows and Linux too. We wrote it using REALbasic, a great tool for cross-platform rapid development. Source is available on request.

How much?

Font Mate is freeware. Download, use, share as you wish. No warranty is offered, and we accept no liability for anything strange or nasty that it might do to your computer.

And another thing

If you like Font Mate, why not have a look at our main site at tellura.co.uk and check out our other products and services?

Font Manager is a font manager for GNOME. Font Manager cannot do any font management tasks yet, but is already useful for picking fonts.
Main features:
- List installed fonts
- Add previews for installed fonts
- Open font properties from context menu
- Set system fonts from the font manager
- Make the font manager installable

fontimage project is a small, portable tool that generates PNG images of text strings directly from outline font files.
Main features:
- only depnends on libpng and freetype, should be very portable
- handles charaters outside of ascii range
- Licensed under GNU GPL
- Tested on Fedora Core 5 and CentOS 4.3

x-fontperf is a small utility to measure font rendering/loading time in an x11 environment. Originally intended to see if there is any notable performance difference between a separate font server and local font rendering.
It actually does three different tests:
1) Loading the same font several times
Gives you an average loading time for this particular font. If you use a font already in use in your x-session this should be really quick as this font will be reused and not actually loaded again (cached)
2) Loading the same font in different sizes (incrementing)
Default is from 6 to 144 pixel. Interesting to see how rendering time increases with font size (see option -v)
3) Loading all available fonts
This should give you a good estimate on average fontloading time. Also a good test to stress your system and check if all fonts are loadable (see option -e)
Sample output:
x-fontperf -v
x-fontperf: Copyright (c) Holger Pfaff - http://pfaff.ws
x-fontperf: version 1.1 from 26-Mar-2004
x-fontperf: connected to server: :0.0
x-fontperf: server vendor: Gentoo Linux (XFree86 4.3.0, revision r3)
x-fontperf: vendor release: 40300000
x-fontperf: total of 6406 fonts found
x-fontperf: basefont: -*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
x-fontperf: loading basefont 100 times ... 6292 usec 62 usec/font
x-fontperf: loading font from pixel size 6 to 144 ... 2977820 usec 21578 usec/font
x-fontperf: loading all 6406 available fonts ... 34965472 usec 5458 usec/font
Usage:
Usage: x-fontperf ...
-display X-display to use
-v Increase verbosity (may falsify results)
-e Show errors during tests
-n Number of iterations for test 1 [100]
-min Minimum pixel size for test 2 [6]
-max Maximum pixel size for test 2 [144]
-foundry Foundry of font [*]
-family Family of font [helvetica]
-weight Weight of font [*]
-slant Slant of font [*]
-setwidth Set width of font [*]
-addstyle Additional style of font [*]
-pixelsize Pixel size of font [12]
-pointsize Point size of font [*]
-resolutionX X resolution of font [*]
-resolutionY Y resolution of font [*]
-spacing Spacing of font [*]
-avgwidth Average width of font [*]
-registry Registry of font [iso8859]
-encoding Encoding of font [1]
Verbosity can be increased in three steps by specifying -v several times. No-
tation -vvv is not supported. Use -v -v -v. Errors opening fonts are not shown
by default. Use -e to see them.
-n specifies the number of iterations for test 1. The default of 100 (shown in
brackets) should be ok for most systems. Increase/decrease values for fast/slow
systems
-min/-max specifies the minimum/maximum pixel size for test 2. Pixel sizes are
incremented by one.
The last block of arguments is for specifying the basefont to use for tests 1
and 2. These follow the standard x11 font naming scheme. Again: defaults are
shown in brackets.
Enhancements:
- first public version 1.0

TextImage provides a product generates images displaying rendered text.

It allows a Plone site to display text in any font uploaded into this product, independent of the endusers browser or fonts installed therein.

Using this tool provides more freedom in customising typesetting of a Plone site.

This Plone product has been developed by Atopia to generate images displaying rendered text.

This product allows a Plone site to display text in any font uploaded into this product, independent of the endusers browser or fonts installed therein.

Using this tool provides more freedom in customising typesetting of a Plone site.

Debian Font Manager (dfontmgr) is a GUI frontend for Defoma. You can see the fonts registered to Defoma, their hints, their status (which applications they have succeeded or failed to register), the applications using Defoma framework and information about the applications and the contents of their id-caches.

You can also register a font by drag-and-drop a font file, unregister a registered font, change the hints of and re-register a registered font. If a defoma-aware application uses an id-cache and if theres an identifier conflict (which means some fonts provides the same identifier) in the id-cache, you can indicate which font should provide the identifier.

GUI versions of some utilities in Defoma and psfontmgr are also installed.

fntsample is a program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font.
The samples are similar in appearance to Unicode charts. Samples can be saved as PDF or PostScript files.
Installation:
The simplest way to compile this package is:
1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.
Running `configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make to compile the package.
3. Optionally, type `make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.
4. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean. There is also a `make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the packages developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.
Enhancements:
- This release makes it possible to change the default font styles and sizes for headers and numbers displayed on font samples.

gbdfed lets you interactively create new bitmap font files or modify existing ones. It allows editing multiple fonts and multiple glyphs.
gbdfed allows cut and paste operations between fonts and glyphs and editing font properties. The editor works natively with BDF fonts.
gbdfed can import:
Metafont PK/GF fonts.
Han Bitmap Font format (HBF) fonts.
Linux console (PSF, CP, and EGA/VGA) fonts.
Sun VF fonts.
OpenType (OTF & TTF) fonts (using Freetype 2).
A font from the X server.
gbdfed can export:
PSF2 Linux console fonts.
HEX fonts (see online help).
The editor also supports 2, 4, and 8 bits-per-pixel gray scale fonts for embedding in OTF fonts.
Main features:
- Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line.
- Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
- Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts.
- Multiple glyph bitmap editors can be open at the same time.
- Cutting and pasting between glyph bitmap editors.
- Export of XBM files from glyph bitmap editors.
- Automatic correction of certain metrics when a font is loaded.
- Generation of XLFD font names for fonts without XLFD names.
- Update an XLFD font name from the font properties.
- Update the font properties from an XLFD font name.
- Font property editor.
- Font comment editor.
- Supports unencoded glyphs (ENCODING of -1).
- Display of glyph encodings in octal, decimal, or hex.
- Builtin on-line help.
- Imports PK/GF fonts.
- Imports HBF (Han Bitmap Font) fonts.
- Imports Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, and FNT).
- Imports Sun console fonts (vfont format).
- Imports fonts from the X server.
- Imports Windows FON/FNT fonts.
- Imports TrueType fonts and collections.
- Exports PSF fonts.
- Exports HEX fonts.