# Font Viewer

&Burkhard.Lueck; &Burkhard.Lueck.mail;
2010-07-20
&kde; 4.5
KDE
fontview
fonts

&kfontview; is an application to view and install different types of fonts:

- TrueType (`.ttf`)

- OpenType (`otf`, `.ttf`)

- Postscript type 1 (file extension on &Windows; & OS/2 `.pfb`/`.pfm`; on &UNIX;/&Linux; `.pfa`/`.afm`)

- BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format, file extension `.bdf`)

- PCF (Portable Compiled Format, file extension `.pcf`)

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.

Additionally &kfontview; can be launched from the &systemsettings; module Font Installer to use the extended preview capabilities of &kfontview;.

To use &kfontview; in &konqueror; select Services in the sidebar and go to the folders `Fonts/Personal` or `Fonts/System`. Then open the context menu with a &RMB; click on a font and start &kfontview; by selecting it from the context menu.

&kfontview; application &kfontview; application

&kfontview;'s Standard Preview displays your font in several different sizes, so you can get a good idea of what it will look like. From the drop down box in the toolbar you can choose additional preview types:

- All Characters

- Unicode Block: The Unicode standard arranges groups of characters together in blocks

- Unicode Script: In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems

- Change Text: Using this button opens the Preview String dialog where you can insert a user defined text. This feature enables you to check that a font supports the characters you need.

In 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.

To install a font you downloaded from the Internet, click the Install button in the lower-right corner.