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Originally Posted by Hitch
Now, some fonts that I snag have reliable foundries--or their creators make what I call "glyph maps" or "glyph guides." These are PDF pages that show the glyphs, and their character map. Right? If you get a glyph-heavy font, this is invaluable.
BUT, sadly...other font-makers aren't that cool. You get a font, and the glyphs, and tough s**t if you can't find what you want. I have a font like that now. It contains nearly 1,000 custom glyphs.
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So, you want a nice Glyph Map those bajillion fonts you have?
You know me and my latest LaTeX binge... so I couldn't help but looking up a TeX-based solution.
Here is a way to generate a glyph map of a given font by just go through all the Unicode points:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questi...phs-with-xetex
It was easy as pie. I was able to generate a glyph map PDF within seconds. All I had to do was feed it the name of the font.
I attached a few sample PDFs I made using the code from the above link:
- Charis SIL
- Also a special one with larger font size. Tagged it with "[OldPeople]" just for you.
- DejaVu Sans
- Gentium Plus
- Linux Libertine O
- Segoe UI Symbol
- Times New Roman
They aren't the prettiest, but I guess it gets the job done in my book.
Hopefully I understood all this rambling correctly?