02-27-2010
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Originally Posted by
pludi
Mind tho, this is coming from someone who "designs" web-pages as black-on-white, default font & size, should be readable in lynx or w3m
It makes sense to design web sites to use the viewer's default font and size. That's what they prefer; who are we to tell them otherwise?
That does not mean that a page need be dull and visually uninteresting. Mostly it means not specifying everything.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
gnome-font-viewer
gnome-font-viewer(1) User Commands gnome-font-viewer(1)
NAME
gnome-font-viewer - preview fonts
SYNOPSIS
gnome-font-viewer filename
DESCRIPTION
Use gnome-font-viewer, the Font Viewer, to preview fonts and display information about a specified font. You can use the Font Viewer to
display the name, style, type, size, version, and copyright of the font.
To browse the fonts installed on your system, open a file manager window and enter the following URI in the location bar:
fonts:///
Double-click on an icon to display a preview of the font.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
filename The name of the font file to be viewed.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Viewing the test.tff Font in the Font Viewer
example% gnome-font-viewer test.tff
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewExecutable for Font Viewer
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-preferences |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
gnome-font-properties(1), nautilus(1)
NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnome-font-viewer(1)