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Gnome Specimen 0.1 is out!
Sunday, November 26, 2006 ★ 17:23 ★ Categories Gnome, Programming
Note: Gnome Specimen 0.2 is available as well.
I’m proud to release the first version of Gnome Specimen, a simple tool to view and compare fonts installed on your system. Gnome Specimen currently features:
- A list of all fonts available (the left pane)
- A list of font previews (the right pane)
- Configurable preview text and font size
- Configurable foreground and background colors used in the preview pane
- A Dutch translation
Planned features:
- A simple preview for the currently select font (without adding it to preview pane)
- Remembering the list of previews between restarts
- Perhaps others; I’d love feedback
After a long struggle I won the battle with autotools, so the application now obeys the standard configure, make, install routine, has working i18n infrastructure and puts a menu item in the Graphics section of your Gnome menu.
Go grab it now: Gnome Specimen 0.1 tarball
(The Gnome Specimen bazaar-ng branch is available as well.
bzr branchthat url to get it.)Update: Translators, the default sentence is a so-called Pangram, a sentence containing all letters of your alphabet. The Pangram Wikipedia article may list one for your language as well. Please keep this in mind when sending me translations! For your convenience, I’ve put up gnome-specimen.pot . Download this file, rename it to
your-language.po(eg.nl.pofor Dutch) and send it to me.
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Who wrote all this?
Wouter Bolsterlee, also known as uws, a postmodern geek living in the Netherlands. Read more about me…
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