[Openfontlibrary] Thumbnails. Was: more updates on Open Font Library

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 07:49 -0700, George Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 01:42, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > One feature I think is needed: the ability to manually upload thumbnails 
> > for a font,  I don't see ccHost generating those thumbnails in an 
> > automatic way in the near future and some kind of preview I think would 
> > be useful.
> What exactly do you have in mind for a font thumbnail?
>   a single glyph at some (fairly large) point size
>   a line of text at some point size
>   a line of text at various point sizes
>   something else?
> 
> I extend fontforge to generate these under a script (well, it already
> does the first) so it could be used as part of an automated process.

This would be cool...could you email and/or add this to this list or our
wiki. I am adding thumbnailing capability.

> By the way, how did I get on this list?
> 

I don't know, but I'm glad you are on  the list to make such a great
suggestion :)

Jon

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