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Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts

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On 2012-11-24 20:23:24 +0000, Cecil Westerhof said:

> Is there a way to get a list of all the installed fonts I can use in
> postscript? Then I can make demos from all, so I can decide which ones
> I want to use.
> 
> If it is important: I am working with Linux.


You can use the resourceforall operator:

	(*) { = } 100 string /Font resourceforall

The above line of PostScript code will send a list of all available 
fonts to stdout (the log file if you're using Distiller or GhostScript 
as your interpreter). The arguments, from left to right above, are:

	(*)		A filter string; "*" means "include everything"
	{ = }	A procedure body that will be called repeatedly, once for each 
Font. When executed,
				the procedure will find on the stack a string containing a font name.
	100 string	This creates a 100-character string to be used as temporary storage
				for the font names.
	/Font	The type of resource we are enumerating; fonts, in our case.

Note that this won't list any CIDFonts (used for Asian and other 
multibyte fonts); to get a list of these, replace "/Font" with 
"/CIDFont" in the above line o' code.

- John


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Getting a list of the installed fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-24 21:23 +0100
  Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-11-24 21:53 +0100
    Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-11-25 00:39 +0100
  Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-24 23:39 +0000
  Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts John Deubert <john@acumentraining.com> - 2012-11-27 11:07 -0800
    Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts "luser.droog" <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2012-11-27 23:59 -0600
      Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts Chris <cjl@spamcop.net> - 2012-11-28 09:25 +0000
  Re: Getting a list of the installed fonts jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2012-12-29 14:43 -0800

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