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So far I have tried 3 image viewers:

• macfeh - Does not reload the image when the image gets altered. The normal feh has an --auto-reload option, but macfeh doesnt, and it does not look it will be added if we ask for it because the developer has not been active for a really long time.

• qlmanage (Quick Look) - Does not reload the image when the image gets altered

• Preview.app - Is able to reload the image using a small hack. But the down side of using preview is that it does not look minimal. It is possible to hide the tool bar and some of the junk, but I am not sure if it is possible to do so from the command line.

To change the focus from the image viewer back to the terminal, we can of course use Apple Script.

When opening a font with fontpreview the window only has "sxiv" as the title. If multiple fonts are opened it becomes hard to keep track which fontpreview window shows which font.

So including the proper name of the font in the preview window might better user experience.

For me the font preview works only for one font. When I want to preview a second font I have to quit and restart the script.

Ubuntu 18.04
bash 4.4.20

on my system it displays the first font fine,
then after selecting the second it doesnt display anything.
any chance to fix? thank you @sdushantha

Very cool code, thank you for your effort, but there is a minor problem, which is that the code does not support the Arabic language for fonts. Please solve this problem

Hey,

I came to try the tool from Reddit (looked really nice and handy). Actually, the issue is that it can't find any fonts in my distribution (i.e. Pop! OS 18.04 LTS (uses Ubuntu as its base)).

Going through the code on line 105.

^^ I found out the command which finds the fonts and runs awk on the output. The issue lies in awk not being able to parse the output correctly.

Fonts Output:

After getting the fonts and running awk on it:

The actual script (fontpreview)'s output:

Appreciate you looking into it. Let me know if further details are required to resolve the issue.

I sometimes make projects that need fonts bundled. This requires me to find out where I installed my fonts to. The system font viewer isn't really helpful at this. So, I would really appreciate if the path of fonts was displayed after the fontnames given a flag such as --show-path.

Hi!

I would be super nice if you could tag releases with git tag. It makes it much easier to track development and package this nice tool for various package managers.

Thanks!

Hello,

I just swapped in dotool everywhere xdotool was in the script and having installed the former, which is Wayland compatible, found your script worked great!

Hello,

I just want to inform you, that I started a reimplementation of fontpreview in Emacs Lisp,
because I often need fontnames for projects within Emacs. It's still in an early stage. Just
thought, you might want to know.
I gave you credits of course.

Sebastian Meisel

Every time I load a font, the window focus goes to the preview window and I have to click on the terminal to set focus back to the font selection.
Is it possible to make it retain focus on the font selection window (terminal)?

I'm sure not everything here is needed to reproduce but here is my current setup:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) x86_64
Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64
DE: KDE
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Materia-Manjaro-Dark-Gradient
Theme: Breeze Dark [KDE], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: Materia-Manjaro-Dark-2 [KDE], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole

Would be nice if users could be able to open a font file by giving the path to the file, and it would open the preview in sxiv:

fontpreview /path/to/font.otf

^^ That is just a mock up ^^

Feature idea

Preview all font at once (with a custom text eg. using --preview-text ) in a list (one font per line).

Would make it easy to compare lot of fonts at once.

Hello,

Your fontpreview shows only the systems fonts, then I want the fontpreview to show other non-system font fonts to preview the fonts, for example:

fontpreview '/home/your_username/GitLab/fontes/Fontes de Apple e Microsoft/'

Currently, if a RTL language is passed to fontpreview via --preview-text, it appears backwards. Can be seen with the following text:

קצת טקסט בעברית
which gives the following output:

Two points:

• does not switch the focus back to the terminal
• quitting sxiv, then fzf gets confused

I got the first working in terminal, but not yet in fontpreview.
The second will probalby need a review of opening/closing strategy.

Let me know :)

It would be cool if the program updated the font on the font preview window as you scrolled, without having to click the enter key

Please implement a title in the font preview window, which should show the font name and style or the postscript name.

Use case

Fonts have often misleading names, sometimes still in the DOS 8.3 naming convention. For similar-looking fonts, it's not easy to see which font it really is if you don't see the real font name embedded in the font. Font names like bookosb.ttf and bookosbi.ttf don't tell much if you need a certain font, for example in LibreOffice which shows the real font names and not the file names.

Example code

fc-scan --format "%{fullname[$(( $(sed -E 's/^(.*)en.*/\1/;s/[^,]//g' <<<"$(fc-scan --format "%{fullnamelang}\n" /mnt/Fonts/bookosb.ttf)" | wc -c) -1 ))]}\n" /mnt/Fonts/bookosb.ttf

is a way to retrieve the font name wherever fontconfig is installed, so practically everywhere on Linux. The complex line is necessary because a simple fc-scan --format "%{fullname}\n" would return something like

Bookman Old Style Negreta,Bookman Old Style tučné,Bookman Old Style fed,Bookman Old Style Fett,Bookman Old Style Έντονα,Bookman Old Style Bold,Bookman Old Style Negrita,Bookman Old Style Lihavoitu,Bookman Old Style Gras,Bookman Old Style Félkövér,Bookman Old Style Grassetto,Bookman Old Style Vet,Bookman Old Style Halvfet,Bookman Old Style Pogrubiony,Bookman Old Style Negrito,Bookman Old Style Полужирный,Bookman Old Style Fet,Bookman Old Style Kalın,Bookman Old Style Krepko,Bookman Old Style Lodia

instead of just

Bookman Old Style Bold

Alternatively, fc-scan --format "%{postscriptname}\n" is simpler, but returns

• BookmanOldStyle-Bold*

which needs to be parsed by the user to get the proper name for linux use.

In opensuse, user must install 2 additional packages:
sudo zypper in fzf sxiv

and then works.

I just learned from @Krasjet that you can use überzug to display the font preview right on the terminal! Which is AWESOME!

I was thinking that we could use fzf's preview window to display the font preview image. This means users wont have to press [ENTER], to view the font preview because fzf automatically displays the content in the preview window just by highlighting it.

This would also fix the issues (#12) many users we having with xdotool not working properly.

Also, using überzug would mean that everything would be in one window instead of having a separate window for the font preview.

@aeghn has made a PR(#13) to add keybindings to do certain action in fzf. So if we do add the überzug image preview, we can then quickly remove the image to display the help menu in fzf's preview window.

Let me know what you guys think!

PS. I cant work a lot on project for the next 2 weeks because I will be very busy, so if someone wants push access please do contact me :)

Relevant Arch Wiki page.

xfontsel -print
# ... pick a font with desired properties
-*-fira code-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Programs that use it:

• xosd-based (such as osd_cat, osd_clock)

https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/fontpreview/

Thanks a lot for merging the patches I've submitted some time ago. It helped a lot with creating the port.

Hello :)

I am very busy at the moment with school related things and would like to focus more on that for some time. So, I was wondering if any of you, with some good knowledge with bash, would like to get push access to this repo so that you can merge PRs, and push edits to the repo and keep this project alive?

If you are interested, please do contact me by email (check my profile).

adding a live preview with nsxiv or ueberzugpp

I have really slow connection to github. As a result, I can only clone the repo at ~15KiBps. A single demo.gif takes up 5.93MB, which is larger than all other files combined (the repo weighs only 21KB after the removal).

Solution: use an image hosting service and embed the image in README.

In the PKGBUILD file on AUR

package() {
  cd "$pkgname/"
  make DEST="$pkgdir/" install
  install -D -m644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/fontpreview/LICENSE.md"
}

The executable will be located at root / by default which is probably not intended.

Hello
this will not work for now:
./fontpreview -i /home/jd/Productions/B/BLionTaleFont/BLionTale-Regular.otf --preview-text "BONSOIR" -o a.png
expected: a.png shows a BONSOIR word
encountered: a.png contains the whole default alphabet

:)