I’m searching for a macro or a program to quickly visualize fonts

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By Oliver AKA The Admin on 14 comments
in Categories: Just Talking

Hello,
There’s something I’ve been needing for a while, but none of the solutions I found online were satisfactory… Maybe you could help me with a suggestion, if you have some experience in this regard ?

– UPDATE : the PERFECT solution has been posted in the comments, so I don’t need help anymore :)
I still leave the question I asked below, if you’re curious, but from now on, there is no need to reply to this.
Once again, my thanks to everyone who helped, I am grateful  –

Very simply, I have a shitload of fonts, and I’d like something to help me make a fast choice of the font I need for my use at a given time. It should allow me to :
– write a sentence (this is my EXAMPLE 123456789 è_é ^^;; – … you get the idea ?)
– send to my printer or to a pdf file this sentence written in ALL the available fonts, OR from a manual selection of fonts among my system fonts

Ideally, it would
– either use the default listed system fonts (on a windows environment, it would be c:\windows\fonts\)
– either use the fonts present in a manually specified subdirectory (for instance ~\downloads\fonts_packs\new_pack\ …)

To be frank, I spend days and days searching, and I never found a program allowing to make it. A macro, a program, OpenOffice, MS Office, anything would do…

Thank you VERY much if you can help with a suggestion ! :)

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player1
player1
14 years ago

don’t you have a preview in the dropdown menu(were you choose your font) in openoffice? Or is thair a need for more?

Sry 4 the bad english, blame the german school system.

player1
player1
14 years ago

or here an msoffice macro

Sub Fontliste()
Dim strBeispielText As String
Dim intSchriftGroesse As Integer
Dim varFont As Variant
On Error GoTo Fehlermeldung:
‘ strBeispielText = InputBox(“Beispieltext tippen”)
‘ intSchriftGroesse = InputBox(“Schriftgröße eingeben”)
Documents.Add
Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(“Überschrift 1”)
Selection.TypeText “Schriftenliste mit ” _
& FontNames.Count & ” Schriften”
Selection.TypeParagraph
For Each varFont In FontNames
Selection.Font.Name = “Arial”
Selection.Font.Size = 12
Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.TypeText varFont & “:”
‘ Selection.TypeParagraph
Selection.Paragraphs.TabStops(CentimetersToPoints(7)) _
.Alignment = wdAlignTabLeft
Selection.Font.Name = varFont
‘ Selection.Font.Size = intSchriftGroesse
Selection.Font.Size = “12”
Selection.TypeText Text:=vbTab & “123-abc-ijk-LMN-äöü”
‘ Selection.TypeText Text:=vbTab & strBeispielText
‘ Selection.TypeText strBeispielText
Selection.TypeParagraph
Next varFont
Exit Sub
Fehlermeldung:
MsgBox (“Fehler aufgetreten, Eingabe wiederholen!”)
End Sub

player1
player1
14 years ago

ok sry 4 the spamming

this works perfectly for me after executing the above macro you choose you “example text” the the font sice.

player1
player1
14 years ago

me agin …….

em after making the makro I googled and “print all fonts” the first link schould do it also :- )

Lenord
Lenord
14 years ago

Hi Oliver,

I’m a typographer and we mostly use Mac-Software for this,
but my colleagues on PC often use Suitcase: http://www.extensis.com/fr/products/suitcasefusion2/index.jsp

It organizes and help you choose the right font. It also can display the fonts directly – you can see it on their site.

greetz

lenord

erghiez
erghiez
14 years ago

in linux, you can try gnome-specimen

wondercorn
wondercorn
14 years ago

hi, I’m a designer, I use FontExpert 2007 for my font viewer need and picking the right font for my design. Try it if you want. I hope it could help you.

ida
ida
14 years ago

try using MainType. here’s the official site for it: http://www.high-logic.com/maintype.html

The Hidden
The Hidden
14 years ago

I second PacMan on “The Font Thing”
Original Homepage: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html

It does exactly what you want it to, and more.

limited
limited
14 years ago

the one i use is amp font vieuwer, very handy!

PacMan
PacMan
14 years ago

Im happy that it worked for you :)