This is a lister plugin for Total Commander that allows you to display the glyphs and some additional properties of a font in the Lister or the QuickView window of Total Commander.
It has been tested with Total Commander 5.51 on Windows 2000
and Windows XP.
Any older version of Windows is not supported.
Click here to download the latest version.
The plugin will be used when you view a raster, vector, TrueType, OpenType, TrueType Collection, or PostScript Type 1 with the lister of Total Commander.
The font information is spread over 3 tab pages with an additional tab page for the options of the plugin.
This page displays the glyphs of the selected font. By default it displays the first 256 Windows ANSI characters in the default code page of the system. The first 128 characters are identical to the ASCII character set, the next 128 are different for each ANSI character set.
Each glyph is displayed in a cell. At the top of the cell is the glyph number displayed in hexadecimal format. You can used this code in HTML documents: Ω will display a capital omega Ω. When you click on a cell with the left mousebutton, a zoomed version of the glyph will be displayed as long as the mousebutton is pressed and the mouse remains over the zoomed area. The zoomed area also contains the glyph number in hexadecimal and decimal and the selected glyph rendered in the current user-interface font.
With the combo-box in the top-left corner of the page you can select another Unicode block to display. The entries can be sorted ascending or descending
by block range or by block description.
Note: the ANSI block is a pseudo-block added for convenience and is not defined by the Unicode standard. It will always be the first entry in the combo-box.
The top-right combo-box allows you to select a different Windows code page. The OEM code set f.e. contains the DOS linedraw characters.
At the bottom of the page is an edit box and a slider which can be used to set the size of the font used to draw the glyphs.
This page will display information that is embedded in the font file and information about the font reported by Windows. You can select all or part of the information by clicking and dragging the mouse and use Ctrl-C to copy the selected text to the clipboard.
This page will display a sample text in the currently selected font. You can edit the text as you like. The changed text will be stored and used when viewing other fonts.
At the bottom of the page is an edit box and a slider which can be used to set the size of the font used to draw the sample.
The Zoom Box Font Size is the size of the font used to display the Zoom Box expressed in points.
The Zoom Box Width and Height is the width and height of the Zoom Box expressed in pixels.
The Sort Unicode Blocks by combo-box allows you to select in which order the Unicode Blocks are displayed.
The User Interface Language determines the language used to display the user interface. The contents depends on the language files that
are available. English is always available.
Note: A new language selection is only used after the plugin is closed and re-opened.
The Save Current options determine which settings will be saved and re-used when the plugin closes and re-opens.
| Next tab page | Ctrl-PgDn or Ctrl-Tab |
| Previous tab page | Ctrl-PgUp or Ctrl-Shift-Tab |
| Next control | Ctrl-Right |
| Previous control | Ctrl-Left |
| Close window | Esc |
The plugin looks for language files that have the format Font.<Language>.lng in the same folder as where the plugin exists. The languages are displayed on the Options page.
You can create new translations by using the Font.English.lng file as a template. The language files are text files that can be opened with any text editor.
The Font.English.lng file is not required if you use the plugin in English.
Check if the plugin is correctly installed using the installation procedure and that you have not installed any other Lister plugin that works with font files.
Check if you have installed another Lister plugin that displays information about executables such as the excellent
FileInfo plugin by François Gannier.
Raster and vector fonts have the format of a 16-bit DLL and this plugin will open it.
Move the Font.wlx plugin before the FileInfo.wlx in the installed plugin list.
Any bug reports or suggestions are welcome.
Author: Peter Stuer
Email : mailto://Peter.Stuer@pandora.be
Web : http://users.pandora.be/liontech
Copyright © 2003 by Peter Stuer. All rights
reserved.
German translation of the Readme file © 2003 by Peter Firmkaes
(alias Pete in Total Commander Forum).
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