Re: Showing my (or your) fonts

From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: Showing my (or your) fonts
Organization	Decebal Computing
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Date	2012-11-25 23:20 +0100
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Op zondag 25 nov 2012 20:58 CET schreef Chris:

>> It takes quit a long time to generate. But I'll look into it. Thanks. At
>> least I can try to understand what is happening there.
>
> The time taken to run is mainly due, on my system, to the number of 
> CIDFont/CMap combinations that resourceforall has to enumerate.

It is not a big (or real) problem. I do not think I'll generate the
document often.


>> What I like about my version is that it is sorted and I can exclude
>> ‘doubles’. Some fonts (on my system) are about 15 times included in
>> different names. After excluding the doubles I was left with about half
>> of what I had gotten first. And I could make different sets, by making
>> the script use an input of the needed fonts.
>
> OTOH, you have to repeat that entire process every time you want to check
> the fonts on a new system. Also, I'm assuming you used the output from fc-
> list, and there's no guarantee that a Postscript interpreter actually 
> uses fontconfig to find fonts - even on Ghostscript, that's an optional 
> feature.

All my systems are the same, so it is not a problem (for me). All the
fonts from fc-list where found.

And I want a sample of the fonts I find most interesting, so that when
I make a new ‘document’ I can easily decide which font(s) to use. And
then I only need to 20 or maybe even 10, so I not get lost in the
choices I have.

But maybe after some time I do not need that. After some practice I
‘know’ which font to choose. That would be nice.

But again, I find your input useful.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 13:42 +0100
  Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-25 15:48 +0000
    Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 20:23 +0100
      Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-25 19:58 +0000
        Re: Showing my (or your) fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 23:20 +0100

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