How to create a font samples document for your system
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IntroductionRecently, I created a simple Java application that creates a text file named "font-list.html". This HTML document contains sample text for every font in the system. You can view the HTML document in a Web browser on that system. (You can also print it to a PDF file if you have a software PDF printer driver.)BackgroundWeb designers and graphic artists are always on the look out for new fonts and quickly build up a huge collection of font files installed on their system. Ever since I downloaded and installed all the "Google Web Fonts" collection to my computer, it has become impossible to remember what each font looked like or what options I had for a new project. There are many font viewer applications but they all require the user to select the fonts manually to examine them.I wondered if I could create a simple HTML or PDF file with all the fonts in the system so that they could be examined at leisure.Using the codeHere is the source code. (As it is written in Java, it wo…

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