From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 22:52:05 EDT
--- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> > For the usability point, Word has a very clear
> advantage, you can see a
> > font preview of *every* font at the same time,
> while with Mark feature
> > you can only see the current selected font.
>
> One of the users wanted to create a sample document
> showing all the fonts
> he had on his system.
> I was unable to suggest a good way to do this
> automatically
There are 3 ways:
1) Do it manually one font at a time.
2) Use the Perl bindings. File RFEs if new APIs
are needed.
3) Make a plugin. File RFEs if new APIs are needed.
Andrew.
> Maybe if you mail the user mailing list he will be
> willing to share his
> simple document if he ever got it done.
>
> I think it was sometime in June July on the mailing
> list archives,
> searching for my name (Alan) and the word Font might
> find it.
>
> Later
> Alan Horkan
>
> http://abisource.com
> http://abimoz.mozdev.org
> http://mozilla.org
>
>
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