<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.5-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdedbx45.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE"> ]> <article id="kfontview" lang="&language;"> <articleinfo> <title>Font Viewer</title> <authorgroup> <author>&Burkhard.Lueck; &Burkhard.Lueck.mail;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <date>2018-03-31</date> <releaseinfo>Plasma 5.12</releaseinfo> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>fontview</keyword> <keyword>fonts</keyword> </keywordset> </articleinfo> <para> &kfontview; is an application to view and install different types of fonts: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>&TrueType; (<filename class="extension">.ttf</filename>)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>OpenType (<filename class="extension">otf</filename>, <filename class="extension">.ttf</filename>)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>&PostScript; type 1 (file extension on &Windows; & OS/2 <filename class="extension">.pfb</filename>/<filename class="extension">.pfm</filename>; on &UNIX;/&Linux; <filename class="extension">.pfa</filename>/<filename class="extension">.afm</filename>)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format, file extension <filename class="extension">.bdf</filename>)</para></listitem> <listitem><para>PCF (Portable Compiled Format, file extension <filename class="extension">.pcf</filename>)</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> <para>You can use it as standalone program to preview and install a font downloaded from the Internet. In the preview you can check that the font has all characters you need. </para> <para> Additionally &kfontview; can be launched from the &systemsettings; module <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html"> <guilabel>Font Management</guilabel></ulink> to use the extended preview capabilities of &kfontview;.</para> <para> Alternatively you can use the <guilabel>Font Management</guilabel> module to install, remove, preview and manage all fonts on your system.</para> <!--FIXME still valid? <para>To use &kfontview; in &konqueror; select <guilabel>Services</guilabel> in the sidebar and go to the folders <filename class="directory">Fonts/Personal </filename> or <filename class="directory">Fonts/System</filename>. Then open the context menu with a &RMB; click on a font and start &kfontview; by selecting it from the context menu.</para> --> <!-- used by others as well? --> <para> <screenshot> <screeninfo>&kfontview; application</screeninfo> <mediaobject> <imageobject> <imagedata fileref="kfontview.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject> <textobject> <phrase>&kfontview; application</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject> </screenshot> </para> <para> &kfontview;'s <guilabel>Standard Preview</guilabel> displays your font in several different sizes using a pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once). So you can get a good idea of what it will look like. From the drop down box in the toolbar you can choose additional preview types: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para><guilabel>All Characters</guilabel> displays all characters provided by the font in one size. </para></listitem> <listitem><para>Unicode Block: The Unicode standard arranges groups of characters together in blocks</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Unicode Script: In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems</para></listitem> <listitem><para><guibutton>Change Text</guibutton>: Using this button opens the <guilabel>Preview String</guilabel> dialog where you can insert a user defined text. This feature enables you to check that a font supports the characters you need. </para></listitem> </itemizedlist></para> <para>You can use the zoom buttons or the mousewheel to change the font size in all preview types.</para> <para>In <guilabel>Unicode Block</guilabel> and <guilabel>Unicode Script</guilabel> preview mode additional tooltip info's are displayed hovering a character with the mouse pointer: The character's Unicode <guilabel>Category</guilabel> and the value in <guilabel> UCS-4</guilabel>, <guilabel>UTF-16</guilabel>, <guilabel>UTF-8</guilabel> and as <guilabel>XML Decimal Entity</guilabel>.</para> <para> To install a font you downloaded from the Internet, click the <guibutton>Install</guibutton> button in the lower-right corner. </para> <para>You can install the font for personal us only available to you or system-wide available for all users, the latter will require administrator privileges.</para> <para>Fonts are often provided in an archive format like <literal role="extension">zip</literal>. Open these archives with &ark; which provides a simple previewer for fonts. To make use of the extended capabilities of &kfontview; extract the fonts and open them in &kfontview;. </para><para>Applications need to be restarted to use of the newly installed fonts.</para> </article> <!-- Local Variables: mode: xml sgml-minimize-attributes:nil sgml-general-insert-case:lower sgml-indent-step:0 sgml-indent-data:nil End: vim:tabstop=2:shiftwidth=2:expandtab kate: space-indent on; indent-width 2; tab-width 2; indent-mode none; -->
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