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Assemble a font poster Now you've sorted your fonts, removed dupes and viewed them in the WebGUI. But you prefer having a printed font poster? No problem, we will also do that job ;-) The fontlinge_montage script will arrange the preview images
on a given page size and put a subline with the font's name under it.Before I start to explain all the options, I'll explain you some parameters given after a "--option=": p stands for the number of pixels (i. e. 20),x stands for text.Got that? Nice. I won't repeat it ;-) Lets start with giving the width and height of the poster. This is done by specifying the --width=p and --height=p options.If you have more fonts than those which fit onto one page - don't worry. fontlinge_montage will create as many pages as needed and save them as montage_####.png in the current directory (#### is a continuous number, so you can create up to 9999 pages). To choose which fonts should appear on the poster, use --query='x',
where x is a valid MySQL expression, for example
"font_name LIKE '%' AND font_kategorie=3" will select all fonts
from category 3 ("Broken"). Call fontlinge_montage --list-categories for a list of all categories.To sort the fonts, use --order='x'.
In most cases, x will be 'font_name', but you can also
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The subline (with the font name) can also be customized. First, get a list of valid font names by calling fontlinge_montage --list-fonts (the listed fonts
are system fonts and have nothing to do with the fonts in your fontbase).Choose one of them for use with --subline-font='x'The subline fontsize is set by --subline-fontsize=p If there is more than one column of fonts on your assembled pages, a vertical line between the columns will be drawn. Its width is given with the --strokewidth=p option. --strokewidth=0 will
draw no line.There are also some options to control the distance between preview images, sublines and the vertical line: --subline-distance=p, --y-gap=p,
--x-gap=p and --x-rgap=pYou can see the effect of these options in the image below. To quickly get a font poster, have a look at montage.sh.Oh, if you want to print out the assembled pages, it may be a good idea to generate larger preview images. You remember the fontlinge_base --previews --forcepreviews --my_preview=x command?
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