Re: print preview screenshot

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 22:52:05 EDT

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     --- 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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