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 <title>Font Viewer</title>
 <authorgroup>
 <author>&Burkhard.Lueck; &Burkhard.Lueck.mail;</author>
 
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 <date>2018-03-31</date>
 <releaseinfo>Plasma 5.12</releaseinfo>
 
 <keywordset>
 <keyword>KDE</keyword>
 <keyword>fontview</keyword>
 <keyword>fonts</keyword>
 </keywordset>
 </articleinfo>
 
 <para>
 &kfontview; is an application to view and install different types of fonts:
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para>&TrueType; (<filename class="extension">.ttf</filename>)</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>OpenType (<filename class="extension">otf</filename>, <filename class="extension">.ttf</filename>)</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>&PostScript; type 1 (file extension on &Windows; &amp; OS/2 <filename class="extension">.pfb</filename>/<filename class="extension">.pfm</filename>; on &UNIX;/&Linux; <filename class="extension">.pfa</filename>/<filename class="extension">.afm</filename>)</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format, file extension <filename class="extension">.bdf</filename>)</para></listitem> 
 <listitem><para>PCF (Portable Compiled Format, file extension <filename class="extension">.pcf</filename>)</para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 </para>
 <para>You can use it as standalone program to preview and install a font 
 downloaded from the Internet. In the preview you can check that the font 
 has all characters you need.
 </para>
 <para>
 Additionally &kfontview; can be launched from 
 the &systemsettings; module <ulink url="help:/kcontrol/fontinst/index.html">
 <guilabel>Font Management</guilabel></ulink> to use the extended preview capabilities
 of &kfontview;.</para>
 
 <para>
 Alternatively you can use the <guilabel>Font Management</guilabel> module
 to install, remove, preview and manage all fonts on your system.</para>
 
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 <para>To use &kfontview; in &konqueror; select <guilabel>Services</guilabel> in
 the sidebar and go to the folders <filename class="directory">Fonts/Personal
 </filename> or <filename class="directory">Fonts/System</filename>.
 Then open the context menu with a &RMB; click on a font and start &kfontview; 
 by selecting it from the context menu.</para>
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 <para>
 &kfontview;'s <guilabel>Standard Preview</guilabel> displays your font in several 
 different sizes using a pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once).
 So you can get a good idea of what it will look like. 
 From the drop down box in the toolbar you can choose additional preview types:
 <itemizedlist>
 <listitem><para><guilabel>All Characters</guilabel> displays all characters
 provided by the font in one size. </para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Unicode Block: The Unicode standard arranges groups of characters 
 together in blocks</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>Unicode Script: In Unicode, a script is a collection of letters 
 and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more 
 writing systems</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para><guibutton>Change Text</guibutton>: Using this button opens the <guilabel>Preview 
 String</guilabel> dialog where you can insert a user defined text. 
 This feature enables you to check that a font supports the characters you need.
 </para></listitem>
 </itemizedlist></para>
 <para>You can use the zoom buttons or the mousewheel to change the font size in all preview types.</para>
 <para>In <guilabel>Unicode Block</guilabel> and <guilabel>Unicode Script</guilabel> 
 preview mode additional tooltip info's are displayed hovering a character with the 
 mouse pointer: 
 The character's Unicode <guilabel>Category</guilabel> and the value in <guilabel>
 UCS-4</guilabel>, <guilabel>UTF-16</guilabel>, <guilabel>UTF-8</guilabel> and 
 as <guilabel>XML Decimal Entity</guilabel>.</para>
 
 <para>
 To install a font you downloaded from the Internet, click the 
 <guibutton>Install</guibutton> button in the lower-right corner.
 </para>
 
 <para>You can install the font for personal us only available to you or system-wide available
 for all users, the latter will require administrator privileges.</para>
 
 <para>Fonts are often provided in an archive format like <literal role="extension">zip</literal>.
 Open these archives with &ark; which provides a simple previewer for fonts. 
 To make use of the extended capabilities of &kfontview; extract the fonts and open them in 
 &kfontview;.
 
 </para><para>Applications need to be restarted to use of the newly installed fonts.</para>
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