FontShower 2.9 build: 9450 released: 2009-09-30

Display Swing fonts in various styles, sizes and colours. Display true font heights..

Copyright: (c) 2012 Canadian Mind Products.

Java Applet (that can also be run as an application).
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#FONTSHOWER
View HTML to run this program online at: http://mindprod.com/applet/fontshower.html

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All Java jars and source code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS,
(e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/W7x86/W7-64/OSX/Linux/Solaris/AIX...) so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.5 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.
To run as an application,type:
java -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\fontshower\fontshower.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application or Applet.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.
To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file.

To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type:
open Terminal.app
cd ~/Desktop
java -ea -jar com/mindprod/fontshower/fontshower.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary class and jar files, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar.
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar.

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Use:

Displays all the Swing fonts available via Java on the
machine. Displays the fonts in a variety of styles, sizes
and colours, both anti-aliased and plain.

Font Shower displays the fonts available on *your* machine
to *Java*. Other people will have different fonts installed
and will see different selections available via Java on
their machines. Your browser will see a slightly different
set of fonts than Java does.  Java has a few extra private
fonts, and some browser fonts don't work with Java.

Renders using a JTextArea.

Freeware avaliable with source.
written by Fahd Shariff, polished by Roedy Green.

To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from
http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any
directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user
folder names" option. To run as an application, type:

java -jar C:\com\mindprod\fontshower\fontshower.jar

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.


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Version History:

 1.5 2004-05-18 initial released Fahd Shariff
                TODO: add more entities, Greek, hex, JColorChooser
                figure out why anti-alias sometimes fails.

 1.6 2004-05-18 Roedy, add about box, make work as application too. change defaults.
                add more pangrams.

 1.7 2004-05-18 Use JSpinner for font size.

 1.8 2005-07-20 add more sample chars, allow anti-alias.

 1.9 2005-08-11 prompt whether selecting text or background color.
                Separate out FontSamples class to make it common
                to FontShower and FontShowerAwt.
                Sort out why anti-alias was not working. Remove Baht char.

 2.0 2005-09-01 add Japanese Hiragana and Katagana char.

 2.1 2006-03-05

 2.2 2007-02-09 more Chinese sample chars

 2.3 2007-05-03 more reserved colour scheme.

 2.4 2008-04-01 display title and build number.

 2.5 2008-05-26 add arrows to sample chars

 2.6 2008-08-18 summary list of all fonts you can copy paste.

 2.7 2008-11-20 add Esperanto accented letters

 2.8 2009-01-23 add Kanji digits to font samples.

 2.9 2009-09-30 add true font heights to allfonts display

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