ListFont 1.2a description

referenced by:

Microsoft Typography
Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

ListFont lists all fonts installed on the computer. You can restrict this listing to fonts of a specified character set. If you click on one of the found fonts, you get all scripts (f.e. western, cyrillic) and styles (e.g. bold) availible for this font. If a font is choosen, three types of output can be simulated: Using SetText(), TextOutA() and TextOutW(). All 256 or 65536 possible characters are shown! Try it and see the difference.

Example:
Windows NT 4.0: Choose Times New Roman, greek, regular (if you don't have it, install the international fonts availible from www.microsoft.com).

Choose SetText. At position E1 you will find a 'latin small letter a with acute'.

Choose TextOut. Now a 'small greek letter alpha' appears on position E1.

Choose 'Show Unicode Font'. Now the alpha is visible at position 03B1.
Windows 95: The same procedure, the same result, except:

SetText now gives a 'small greek letter alpha' at position E1.

Try it out!

Features:

Enumerates all fonts installed on the computer,
enumeration can be restricted to a given character set,
all availible scripts of each font are shown,
all availible styles of each script are shown,
three different output samples are possible: TextOutA(), SetText() (ANSI functions) and TextOutW() (Unicode function),
font files can be loaded temporary,
it's free

Changes in version 1.2:

The enumeration uses a courier font which allows to read the numbers in fonts which don't have numbers (like windings),
Source code can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes

Known problems:

If SetText is choosen, the enumartion does not consist of numbers in some fonts. This is by design and can not be changed. Think about it!
The fonts availible from SC UniPad are not displayed correctly. Reason: unknown. I am using the documented way to display fonts. Obviously these font files do not fulfill the microsoft standard.

Don't expect too much: it's a quick-and-dirty hack without a help file!
Requirements: Windows 95 / NT 4.0

Screenshot of the main dialog (on a german Windows installation)

Screenshot of the unicode preview

OK, I want it (24k)!
Source Codes (11k)

Last modification: 2000-06-26
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