Pfontview, fc-query

October 29, 2012 — BarryK

Thunor has developed Pfontview, a TTF viewer. It requires the 'fc-query' utility from the 'fontconfig' package.

However, Woof has a template for fontconfig that excludes fc-query. Remedied. Woof commit:
http://bkhome.org/fossil/woof2.cgi/info/390bf2138d

Forum thread for Pfontview:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81534

I tried Pfontview 0.1.1 in Precise Puppy, but get this error:

# pfontview /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf 



** (gtkdialog:4773): ERROR **: gtkdialog: Error in line 7, near token 'string': syntax error



/usr/bin/pfontview: line 275:  4773 Trace/breakpoint trap   $GTKDIALOG --space-expand=true --space-fill=true --file=$TEMP_DIR/winMain

#

Anyway, in future builds, fc-query will be there, so Pfontview can potentially be a nice addition to Puppy.

Comments

sfontview
Username: BarryK
Thunor's 'sfontview' works nicely, but you have to install 'libsdl-ttf2*' DEB package in Precise Puppy.

Tags: woof