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KevinH · 09-16-2019, 08:58 AM

Setting up a font preview dialog is not something of general value. It would just lead to feature creep. For Fonts as you said, you can simply open the font file in a font showing app if you want a preview. How many different font families are you using that you can not remember what that font family looks like? If the fonts are already in use, then using Preview and the Inspector would also be a way to see what font is being used and what it looks like.

And a plugin that loads each font and generates a sample would not be hard to develop. So I will leave this for plugin developers to look at.

That said ...

You do know you can set an "open with" for Fonts in Sigil. For example, on my Mac, I specified that Fonts can use Open With with Font Book.app which nicely shows a Preview.

09-16-2019, 08:58 AM	#5
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,796 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Setting up a font preview dialog is not something of general value. It would just lead to feature creep. For Fonts as you said, you can simply open the font file in a font showing app if you want a preview. How many different font families are you using that you can not remember what that font family looks like? If the fonts are already in use, then using Preview and the Inspector would also be a way to see what font is being used and what it looks like. And a plugin that loads each font and generates a sample would not be hard to develop. So I will leave this for plugin developers to look at. That said ... You do know you can set an "open with" for Fonts in Sigil. For example, on my Mac, I specified that Fonts can use Open With with Font Book.app which nicely shows a Preview. Last edited by KevinH; 09-16-2019 at 09:19 AM.