gnome-font-viewer woes

[NoOp]

On 11/28/2008 10:43 AM, Jorge Luis wrote:
> I'm running 32-bit Hardy.  gnome-font-viewer won't run for me unless
> it's fed a font file to read.  I recall previously that it started up
> even when not passed any parameters.  It displayed a list of installed
> fonts.  Now it just exits immediately unless, as I say, it's given an
> explicit font file.
> 
> Anyone else have issues with this utility?


$ gnome-font-viewer
usage: gnome-font-viewer fontfile

There is no man page

You might find this entertaining (or not):
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/269920>
[ gnome-font-viewer missing in gnome-control-center]

You might want to try fontforge:

sudo apt-get install fontforge

You'll find it afterwards in Applications|Graphics

http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/fontforge fontforge-doc