Is there an application to simply preview a font from a TTF file without installing it?

I need to automate a process of verification which Unicode characters have actual glyphs defined for them in a True Type Font file. How do I go around doing that? I can't seem to find information on how to make sense of the numbers I seem to be getting when I open a .ttf file in a text editor.

I would like to create a Docker image using Alpine Linux and LibreOffice to render PDF documents. The LibreOffice source documents are using Microsofts Times New Roman font. How can I install Microsoft fonts using apk on Alpine Linux? Is there an equivalent packet to Ubuntus apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer? **Update 1:** Meanwhile I have found a package called msttcorefonts-installer that seems to provide what I am looking for. When I try to install it on Alpine Linux 3.7 using apk add msttcorefonts-installer-3.6-r2 I get the following error: ERROR: unsatisfiable constraints: msttcorefonts-installer-3.6-r2 (missing): required by: world[msttcorefonts-installer-3.6-r2]

In FreeBSD's /usr/share/syscons/fonts one finds the syscons-fonts in .fnt-format. Is there a way to convert them to .ttf format?

I;m tried to use Ghostscript to extract fonts from PDF file. GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01) I downloaded extractFonts.ps tool and put it in same folder with PDF file. I also set permissions for extractFonts.ps: 'Allow this file to run as program'. Tried to extract, but got error: ~/Downloads/Helvetica/test$ gs \ -q -dNODISPLAY \ /home/labocomp/Downloads/Helvetica/test/extractFonts.ps \ -c "(/home/labocomp/Downloads/Helvetica/test/10.pdf) extractFonts quit" Error: /invalidfileaccess in --file-- Operand stack: (/home/labocomp/Downloads/Helvetica/test/10.pdf) (r) Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:730/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: Permission denied GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Tried also command: gs -q -dNODISPLAY extractFonts.ps -c "(10.pdf) extractFonts quit > > doesn't extract anything. Where is a problem?

I have some previous SVG files that I'm trying to edit with Inkscape that use Venturis ADF. This font is not installed as a "system font" on my current computer, but I understand it should be found there as part of the texlive-fonts-extra package. The CTAN mentions that ['OTF or TTF available'](https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/allfonts.html) ; I know LaTeX wants the fonts in a different format - but to be sure, should I be able to register Venturis ADF that comes with TeXLive so it can be used in regular Gnome applications such as Inkscape? If yes, how; if no, where do I find the official TTF sources of Venturis ADF (rather than downloading from a random shady "free fonts" website)?

I wanted to see runes (not only in Libreoffice) but in Chrome too. For me, I could not see the following Runes: ᛠᚣᚫᛞᛟᛝᛚᛗᛖᛒᛏᛋᛉᛈᛇᛂᛁᚾᚻᚹᚷᚳᚱᚩᚦᚢ for me, it was boxes (dotted lines), questionmarks, and something on those lines. > Note: This *might* be a question that already has a well-approved > answer, my question was not about how to install fonts in general, but > how to install one specific either font or package (that would enable > me to view the specific font) Answer provided below. I had this problem for years, did not know it was this simple. Edit: I Also wanted to create a C program, (Related link below) and installing the below package trough apt worked flawlessly. Is there a way to print Runes as characters? - At StackOverflow

I have a monospace .ttf font I really like (UbuntuBeta Mono). Is there any way I can use it (or convert first and then use, if needed) for the console in freeBSD? I know there is usr/share/syscons/fonts, but it looks like they might be a different format? Once I install the font, how do I tell the console to use it?

I'm currently playing with Polybar and I'm trying to customize the beautiful themes provided here . To display nice looking icons on the bar, the above mentioned themes use the Material Icons , by setting: content =  Arch - vim: in a urxvt terminal

I've just downloaded the Comic Neue font family distribution zip (from here ). It has an OTF/ subfolder with 12 .otf files, and a Web/ subfolder with 49 files - .ttf, .eot, .woff and .woff2 files (same 12 base-names as the OTFs). Is there any use for me - as a desktop user and even perhaps as a person creating raster and vector graphics, but _not_ for the web / mobile world - to keep the Web/ font files?

I rather dislike the available tty fonts and would rather use Menlo, which is what I use in OS X's Terminal. Menlo is in a .ttc format, but (from the contents of /usr/share/consolefonts) Linux seems to require .psf.gz fonts, with different files for each combination of style and size. How do I convert it to the proper format and set it to be used as the font in ttys? (I have a PowerBook G4 running Ubuntu Server 12.04 and an Intel MacBook Pro running OS X Mountain Lion.)

I have tried installing Computer Modern Unicode fonts on Arch-linux using the following AUR repository here , but in vain. The installation goes smoothly and doesn't produce any errors but I still can't find the CMU-ttf fonts in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. Any ideas ? The output of pacman -Ql ttf-computer-modern-fonts is ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/TTF/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/TTF/cmex10.ttf ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/TTF/cmmi10.ttf ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/TTF/cmr10.ttf ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/fonts/TTF/cmsy10.ttf ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/licenses/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/licenses/ttf-computer-modern-fonts/ ttf-computer-modern-fonts /usr/share/licenses/ttf-computer-modern-fonts/license.txt

I am using Debian Stretch with Openbox window manager and I am trying to set the uniform look for GTK2, GTK3, QT4, QT5 widgets. Everything went smoothly except for GTK3 that partially ignores ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file which looks like this *(I used Lxappearance to modify it)*: gtk-theme-name=Breeze gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze gtk-font-name=Roboto Medium 10 gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors gtk-cursor-theme-size=0 gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH_HORIZ gtk-toolbar-icon-size=GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR gtk-button-images=0 gtk-menu-images=1 gtk-enable-event-sounds=0 gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=0 gtk-xft-antialias=1 gtk-xft-hinting=1 gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull gtk-xft-rgba=rgb Option gtk-font-name=Roboto Medium 10 is completely ignored by all GTK3 applications which continue to use their default font Sans 10 while option gtk-font-name=Monospace 10 works. Other options like gtk-button-images=0 also work if I change them and restart GTK3 applications. So what can I do to be able to use Roboto font in GTK3 applications inside my Openbox window manager? Roboto font works for GTK2 applications in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. It looks like gtk-font-name="Roboto Medium 10" *(mind the quotes which should be avoided in GTK3 configuration file)*. Roboto font also works for QT4 and QT5 applications and was applied using qt5ct... So only GTK3 is making problems for Roboto fonts...

I installed a freeware .ttf font on my FreeBSD-11.1 workstation where I use Mate as the GDM. The font was installed by copying the .ttf file to /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF and running fc-cache -vf. The font name shows up in the fonts available drop-down menu in LO. However, if I select an entire line and change the font to the newly installed one then the line simply disappears. If, instead, I select a sub-string of a line then the font displays the text, but in a very, very tiny font size. Have I missed something in installing this font?

My mac editor: My code in the .ttf file: And copy to my putty, there is messy code here:

I have a .ttf font file which I want to use in my arch linux terminal. I followed the instructions for installing fonts on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Changing_the_default_font These are the steps I tried: [root#archserver ~]# cp my_font.ttf /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ [root#archserver ~]# setfont my_font.ttf Bad input file size I am new to Arch so I'm probably missing something, do I need to convert from .ttf to .psf.gz?

I use Arch Linux, and have followed the wiki pages regarding [Fonts](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts) , [Font configuration](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration) , [Microsoft fonts](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts) and [Infinality](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality) . However, it seems something is wrong with the Microsoft fonts. I copied them over from a mounted **Windows 10** installation. I first copied the fonts from C:\Windows\Fonts to another place (in Windows), as cp was giving me unsupported reparse point errors on a lot of files. I counted the number of files, there were more than 300. Using fc-cache -rv, only **217** fonts were detected. The problem is most noticable to me as Arial resolves to Arial Narrow. That looks like crap: I checked all my font config files thrice, there are no rules that substitute Arial with Arial Narrow. The Arial.TTF font is simply not installed: fc-list | grep -i 'arial' | cut -d':' -f 2,3: /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALN.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNB.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNI.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALNBI.TTF: Arial,Arial Narrow /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARLRDBD.TTF: Arial Rounded MT Bold /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/ARIALUNI.TTF: Arial Unicode MS fc-match arial: ARIALN.TTF: "Arial" "Narrow" I managed to do it in the past with **Windows 8**. Could that be the reason (Windows 10 now)? Update = It gets even more crazy. I've copied fonts from Windows 8 now and rebuilt the cache. Arial appears to be installed and works in a few applications **except Firefox**. It renders Arial as completely blank!

On Linux, I can easily extract the height / width / ascent / descent dimensions of Xorg fonts via xlsfonts, e.g. $ xlsfonts -ll -fn 9x15 | egrep 'bounds|max' bounds: width left right asc desc attr keysym max 9 4 9 12 3 0x0000 How can I extract the same information from a TrueType font I have installed?

I'd like to use a truetype font in xterm/uxterm (version 278) but I get problems with unicode symbols (é for example displays fine, so I guess it's not a disabled utf8 or a locale issue): $ echo -e "\xE2\x98\xA0" gives me a square instead of ☠ with following config: UXTerm*faceName: Liberation Mono UXTerm*faceSize: 9 XTerm*faceName: Liberation Mono XTerm*faceSize: 9 When I disable truetype fonts using the ctrl right click menu, the symbol displays fine using the default fonts which isn't nice at all. I tried uxrvt and got the same problem when I don't have enough letter spacing, but it works fine when I increase it. However, uxrvt gave me a lot of other problems, just like all the other terminal emulators I tried. Does anybody have an idea?

I'm trying to install TTF fonts, for a normal user account, on my RHEL5.4 box The steps I followed are : $ cd ~ $ mkdir .fonts $ cd .fonts $ wget -q http://www.gringod.com/wp-upload/software/Fonts/Monaco_Linux.ttf $ mkfontscale $ mkfontdir $ fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts fc-list command shows that Monaco is installed $ fc-list | grep Monaco Monaco:style=Regular,Standard,Testo normale,Normaal,Normal,Común,Almindelig,Vanlig tekst,Normaali,\u30ec\u30ae\u30e5\u30e9\u30fc But when I try to change font in console, Monaco is not listed.