Does something like The Font Thing for MS exist for Linux?

ezzetabi · 2007-09-14 17:00:43

eyolf · 2007-09-14 17:42:12

Not really. Font management is a deplorable black hole in Linux. Opcion, Kcharselect, fontpage -- all tiny little apps which can display a little of a font, but nothing more. Then there is Fontforge, which is a full font editor, but that's a bit overkill too.
I use Total Commander under wine, with one of the font plugins -- works fine, albeit not optimally.
Have you tried running the Font Thing under wine? Might work.
BTW, I've had Typograf and FontExpert installed too -- they both worked fine with wine.

ezzetabi · 2007-09-15 08:13:27

I'll try this Total Commander since The Font Thing does not work under wine.

eyolf · 2007-09-15 09:11:14

TC itself doesn't display any fonts, but there are plugins at totoalcmd.net
There are two font plugins there. My favourite is the one called Font 0.08, but right now, I can't make it work in wine>TC. The other one, TTFview, is limited to ttf files, but it's decent.

I can also recommend Typograf (shareware, one of the direct install options in winetools), which I know works under wine.

smoon · 2007-09-15 18:03:03

Maybe Gnome Specimne is what you're looking for.

skottish · 2007-09-15 18:07:50

I don't know if this is as full featured as you want, but this may work:

http://gtk2fontsel.sourceforge.net/

It's in AUR:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

kagerato · 2007-09-17 04:31:17

The classic Gtk font viewer was gfontview, if I remember correctly. gnome-font-viewer is newer and probably a standard gnome component. That new gnome-specimen looks somewhat interesting. guCharMap might be the best program available for inspecting individual characters. No idea whether Yalla is any good. Supposedly a program called gnome-character-map exists.

KDE has a halfway decent font installer. The one I linked to is actually probably one among several.

FontForge is by far the most comprehensive font handling application running natively on Linux/GNU. It's mostly meant to be an editor, but you can use it for viewing and comparison as well.

If all else fails, you'll have to run a Windows tool under wine. AMP Font Viewer should work. You might also try this small Unicode Font Viewer.

This Linux.com post may be of interest.

broch · 2007-09-17 13:07:38

I would give up any hope:
1) OTF fonts (PS type) are barely supported, OO.org does not support them at all even though bug/feature enhancement was filled up 4yrs ago.
2) ligatures and glyphs are handled only partially (including scribus)
3) what you see is not what you print under linux (e.g. extra thin weights are visible but not printable irrelevant of printer)
4) font weights might be installable but still system will not see them.
5) no real software to handle fonts

I would say that this is another few yrs before linux gets to the current point of MS and OS X.

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#1 2007-09-14 17:00:43

Does something like The Font Thing for MS exist for Linux?

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