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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-viewer      Executable for Font Viewer

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       attributes(5), nautilus(1)

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    09 Nov 2007 					      gnome-font-viewer(1)

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