KFontview – view and install fonts

KFontview is an application to view and install fonts.

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.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Install different types of fonts:
  • TrueType (.ttf)
  • OpenType (otf, .ttf)
  • PostScript® type 1 (file extension on Windows® & OS/2 .pfb/.pfm; on Linux .pfa/.afm)
  • BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format, file extension .bdf)
  • PCF (Portable Compiled Format, file extension .pcf)
• Can be launched from the System Settings module Font Management to use the extended preview capabilities of KFontview.
• Standard Preview displays your font in several different sizes using a pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once).
• Unicode Block and Unicode Script preview mode additional tooltip info’s are displayed hovering a character with the mouse pointer: The character’s Unicode Category and the value in UCS-4, UTF-16, UTF-8 and as XML Decimal Entity.

Website: github.com/sandsmark/kfontview-standalone
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Developer: KDE
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

KFontview is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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