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- The FontExplorer is an Application for exploring fonts.
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- Especially for the professional user of unprofessional
- (freeware) fonts it is essential to get a fast way to decide,
- wether a font is usable or not.
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- After launching the Application, just open a font.
- You get a 16x16 matrix of buttons labeled with all the glyphs
- the font contains. This is the "Font Inspector".
- In some fonts you will see obscure glyphs at strange Positions.
- In the lower area of the Font Inspector,
- the following information is displayed:
- Font Name (you allready know it)
- Notice (the copyright notice)
- Weight (you allready know it)
- Version
- Encoding scheme
- Italic Angle
- Ascender (f-height))
- Descender (g-"height" {the decscender of a "g")
- Versal Height (H-height)
- Minuscule Height (x-height)
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- Click one a glyph and you get a view with detailed infos about
- the specific glyph. This is the glyph inspector. It showes
- a big picture of the specific glyph with the following infos
- as graphical lines:
- ascender (NX_DKGRAY horizontal)
- descender (NX_DKGRAY horizontal)
- versal height (NX_DKGRAY horizontal)
- minuscule height (NX_DKGRAY horizontal)
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- font bounding box (0.8 (light gray))
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- glyph bounding box (1 (white))
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- x and y axis (0 (black))
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- as text info:
- number of kerningpeers (the max of all glyphs
- a good estimate of the
- fonts quality)
- every kerningpeer (with kerning value)
- glyph name (trivial)
- glyph code
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- You get two radio buttons to choose the drawing style.
- You may choose filled or stroked. In stroked mode you
- can detect some dirtiness in drawing the font while
- others are detected better in filled mode.
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- This Version is a m68k-Version (it is free).
- If you are interested in an Intel-Version version,
- send me a fax. Fax: +49 / 030 / 214 32 61
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