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MAN Solaris - gnome-font-viewer (1)

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gnome-font-viewer - preview fonts

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gnome-font-viewer filename

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.

The following operands are supported:

filename The name of the font file to be viewed.

Example 1: Viewing the test.tff Font in the Font Viewer

example% gnome-font-viewer test.tff

The following exit values are returned:

0 Application exited successfully

>0 Application exited with failure

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/gnome-font-viewer Executable for Font Viewer

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

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

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

gnome-font-properties(1), nautilus(1)

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

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