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Dave Yeo:
How are you running Fontviewer? Here trying to start it with java -jar FontViewer.jar results in it crashing due to not being able to load the shell folder ID list.

Pete:
Hi All

Thought I'd give FontViewer a try so clicked on the link at the bottom of ivans post. Seamonkey (User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 SeaMonkey/2.35) popped up the Open/Save dialog, I selected Save and clicked OK. No follow up dialog asking where to download to though.

I get the same problem when trying to download the accompanying icon file.

Is this Seamonkey misbehaving or is there something wrong with the download link? - Can anyone else download these files with this build of Seamonkey?


Regards

Pete

Dave Yeo:
Worked fine here with the latest SM. I have seen similar though and IIRC, fixed it by changing the options under Preferences-->Downloads, I think When Saving a file and then back.

Einar Lygre:

--- Quote from: ivan on January 19, 2017, 04:47:12 pm ---You could use Fontviewer which is a java program.  It works with openjdk6 but you will need to know where your fonts are.

--- End quote ---

Thank you. Works fine, but I should like to see more the one font at a time, just to compare them before selecting one.

Alex Taylor:
There is also fontinfo which is mine.  It's admittedly designed more for inspecting font headers than for previewing, but you can view individual characters.  If you associate it with TTF, OTF and/or PFB files, you should be able to open several files at a time in separate instances using the WPS or a file manager.

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