<FILENAME filename="index.html"><html><head><title>Font Viewer</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-default.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-docs.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help:/kdoctools5-common/kde-localised.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"><meta name="keywords" content="KDE, fontview, fonts"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Font Viewer"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.14 using libxslt"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div id="content"><div id="header"><div id="header_content"><div id="header_left"><div id="header_right"><img src="help:/kdoctools5-common/top-kde.jpg" width="36" height="34"> Font Viewer</div></div></div></div><div class="navCenter"><table class="navigation"><tr><td class="prevCell"></td><td class="upCell"> </td><td class="nextCell"></td></tr></table></div><div id="contentBody"><div lang="en" class="article"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="kfontview"></a>Font Viewer</h2></div><div><div class="authorgroup"><p class="author"><span class="firstname">Burkhard</span> <span class="surname">Lück</span> <code class="email"><lueck@hube-lueck.de></code></p></div></div><div>Revision <span class="releaseinfo">Plasma 5.12 (<span class="date">2018-03-31</span>)</span></div></div><hr></div><p> <span class="application">KFontview</span> is an application to view and install different types of fonts: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p><span class="trademark">TrueType</span>® (<code class="filename">.ttf</code>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>OpenType (<code class="filename">otf</code>, <code class="filename">.ttf</code>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p><span class="trademark">PostScript</span>® type 1 (file extension on <span class="trademark">Windows</span>® & OS/2 <code class="filename">.pfb</code>/<code class="filename">.pfm</code>; on <span class="trademark">UNIX</span>®/<span class="trademark">Linux</span>® <code class="filename">.pfa</code>/<code class="filename">.afm</code>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format, file extension <code class="filename">.bdf</code>)</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>PCF (Portable Compiled Format, file extension <code class="filename">.pcf</code>)</p></li></ul></div><p> </p><p>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. </p><p> Additionally <span class="application">KFontview</span> can be launched from the <span class="application">System Settings</span> module <a class="ulink" href="help:/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html" target="_top"> <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Font Management</span></span></a> to use the extended preview capabilities of <span class="application">KFontview</span>.</p><p> Alternatively you can use the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Font Management</span></span> module to install, remove, preview and manage all fonts on your system.</p><p> </p><div class="screenshot"><div xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="mediaobject"><img src="kfontview.png" alt="KFontview application"></div></div><p> </p><p> <span class="application">KFontview</span>'s <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Standard Preview</span></span> 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: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">All Characters</span></span> displays all characters provided by the font in one size. </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Unicode Block: The Unicode standard arranges groups of characters together in blocks</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>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</p></li><li class="listitem"><p><span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Change Text</span></span>: Using this button opens the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Preview String</span></span> dialog where you can insert a user defined text. This feature enables you to check that a font supports the characters you need. </p></li></ul></div><p>You can use the zoom buttons or the mousewheel to change the font size in all preview types.</p><p>In <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Unicode Block</span></span> and <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Unicode Script</span></span> preview mode additional tooltip info's are displayed hovering a character with the mouse pointer: The character's Unicode <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">Category</span></span> and the value in <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel"> UCS-4</span></span>, <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">UTF-16</span></span>, <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">UTF-8</span></span> and as <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guilabel">XML Decimal Entity</span></span>.</p><p> To install a font you downloaded from the Internet, click the <span xmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0" class="guiitem"><span class="guibutton">Install</span></span> button in the lower-right corner. </p><p>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.</p><p>Fonts are often provided in an archive format like <code class="literal">zip</code>. Open these archives with <span class="application">Ark</span> which provides a simple previewer for fonts. To make use of the extended capabilities of <span class="application">KFontview</span> extract the fonts and open them in <span class="application">KFontview</span>. </p><p>Applications need to be restarted to use of the newly installed fonts.</p></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="navCenter"><table class="navigation"><tr><td class="prevCell"></td><td class="upCell"> </td><td class="nextCell"></td></tr><tr><td class="prevCell"> </td><td class="upCell"> </td><td class="nextCell"> </td></tr></table></div><div id="footer_text">Would you like to make a comment or contribute an update to this page?<br>Send feedback to the <a href="mailto:kde-doc-english@kde.org" class="footer_email">KDE Docs Team</a></div></div></div></body></html></FILENAME>
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