Font Display Script Rel5 (now optionally Dingbat friendly)

AnMal · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:50 pm **(#21)**

graechan: wow, thank you for adding this! i can now easily make neat font maps on patterned backgrounds and what more could a woman possibly want :mrgreen:

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Graechan · **Posted:** Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:49 am **(#22)**

Anmal the font would have displayed better if the text color was white otherwise you Gals seem to collect lots of fonts and patterns.

Barbie · **Joined:** Oct 07, 2011 **Posts:** 180

I have some extravagant fancy Fonts that appear squished together and entwined around each other, making it difficult to determine the full extent of each letter. (Especially Capitol letters).
So for these fonts they need a space in between each letter. I Spaced the numbers and other characters too.
So I changed my Layout-2 to this:

(layout-2 (string-append font "\n" your-text "\n" " ! \" # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . >\n: ; < = ? @ / [ \\ ] ^ _ `\n0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9\nA B C D E F G H I J K L M\nN O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\na b c d e f g h i j k l m\nn o p q r s t u v w x y z"))

●And I might change the label from Layout-2 to "Layout-2 Spaces".
●Maybe Graechan could add this as a Layout-3 for that choice for others???
●Or maybe an added option that you can select the letter spacing? ( because two spaces between each capitol letter in some fonts is even better).
Thanks Graechan!

Examples:

Left:NO SPACES Right:WITH SPACES between each letter, number, character

Left:NO SPACES Right:WITH SPACES between each letter, number, character

NO SPACES

WITH SPACES between each letter, number, character.

AnMal · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:27 am **(#24)**

barbie: that's another tweak i'll have to steal from you

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- that's for sharing your changes to the script, that was the last push i needed to finally get over my fear of making changes in a script file.

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 4:45 am **(#25)**

I am delighted that people have discovered how easy it is to adapt the file to individual requirements

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:20 pm **(#26)**

I have amended the script to have a Letter Spacing adjustment in Rel3 as this is a better way of adjusting letter spacing

Graechan · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 8:29 pm **(#27)**

Rel3 with letter spacing now posted

Odinbc · **Posted:** Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:23 pm **(#28)**

I have a little suggestion/request, Graechan. Is there anyway you can capture the font that we used from the font menu to activate the script? It's not a problem, it would just save a step in the dialog.

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:11 am **(#29)**

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I have a little suggestion/request, Graechan. Is there anyway you can capture the font that we used from the font menu to activate the script? It's not a problem, it would just save a step in the dialog.

Odin, I am not sure on what your asking, but if you select the font in the font menu it becomes the active font and would by default be the font used by the script.Having the option of assigning a font permanently was more for my convenience as I have always used this script to create a font file to test another script

Odinbc · **Posted:** Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:52 am **(#30)**

Graechan wrote:

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I have a little suggestion/request, Graechan. Is there anyway you can capture the font that we used from the font menu to activate the script? It's not a problem, it would just save a step in the dialog.

Odin, I am not sure on what your asking, but if you select the font in the font menu it becomes the active font and would by default be the font used by the script.Having the option of assigning a font permanently was more for my convenience as I have always used this script to create a font file to test another script

It all good, I was just thinking if you right select a font to bring up "Font Display" that font will be selected in the "Font Display" dialog. On my Win machine I have to change the font in the "Font Display" dialog. It's not a problam but I thought it might be slick if the font you right selected in the font menu was already in the dialog. For example, if I right select, "Sans Bold", choose the "Font Display" menu, in the "Font Display" dialog I have "JasmineUPC Bold" from a previous use. My Gimp selected font at the time was "Segoe Print Bold".

Graechan · **Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:37 pm **(#31)**

Just uploaded Rel4, where I've changed the displayed fontname to be in the 'Sans' font

This was done to give all fonts a readable header e.g. 'Wingdings e.t.c.'

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:34 pm **(#32)**

Upgraded to release 5 that optionally uses the 'Sans' font for a header which is useful for dingbats

See new menu below

Odinbc · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:49 pm **(#33)**

Nice touch, Graechan!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Graechan,

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:28 pm **(#35)**

Thanks Odin and Molly I think it was 'O' who said it would be to complicated to to apply 2 different fonts but it wasn't that hard at all

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I don't regard that as a shortcoming. It would be horribly complicated to use another font in the script. I use a lot of dingbats and this is a very quick way to see all the dingbats in a font so I can find what I'm looking for. I know I'll use it a lot in that regard. I love the script.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:37 pm **(#36)**

Graechan wrote:

I think it was 'O' who said it would be to complicated to to apply 2 different fonts but it wasn't that hard at all.

Way, way cool Graechan. Nice work!

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:57 pm **(#37)**

'O' love your xmas cartoon font looking for it now 'found it on dafont'

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:40 pm **(#38)**

Thanks for the script, Graechan. :bigthup

I just want to say that I've always tried to be dingbat friendly too. :lol

Graechan · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:29 pm **(#39)**

GnuTux thats Evident by the way you tolerate me :rofl