FONTpage 3.0.2 review

FONTpage is a Python font viewing and image-generating utility

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 25K Developer: Paul Sherman

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FONTpage is a Python font viewing and image-generating utility. It displays system fonts and allows you to change the font size and color, background color, font face, bold, and italics.

It also has the ability to input the text to be displayed, which you can choose to save as a PNG file. It is handy to view fonts and styles quickly, or to make "logo" graphics.

It was written to supersede wxFontView, as the pyGTK toolkit is much lighter and more widely used.

What's New in This Release:
New "Display Font" feature opens popup window with complete alphabet (upper and lower case) and 0-9.
Window shows current font with current size -- use multiple windows to compare different fonts.
Font size now scales up to 256 pts (was 128)
Config file will now track last window dimensions when the application is restarted.
If user font directory directory (~/.fonts) does not exist, FONTpage will create one. This is to facilitate installing and deleting fonts, which FONTpage will only do on a per-user basis. (This is to avoid problems.)