Fonty aims to make it easier to select fonts for use in art projects, presentations, documents, etc.

  • View fonts that are installed on the system or font files in some other folder. Filter the view, search for a font by name. Fonty displays a quick index of links so you can navigate quickly through 'pages' of fonts.
  • Create collections of fonts and save the collection as a list or copy the font files into the collection.
  • Perform the normal install or uninstall. Or you can temporarily activate fonts for the current session only (until you log out or restart your computer). This means you can use fonts temporarily without having to install them (installing lots of fonts can cause your computer to be slow).

 

v 0.9.0.0 (2016-05-30):
+ Load fonts in "real-time" (display each immediately as it is loaded)
+ Add navigation buttons for back/forward history
+ Add navigation buttons for prev/next folder in file system
+ Add column for showing font errors. Hover the mouse over it to see what errors were reported.
+ Add menu item for deleting a font file
+ Add: When the character in a font can't be rendered, use the font's 'missing' glyph or replace it with the character from the fallback font
+ Add ability to select colors for font/background rendering
+ Add ability to select colors for font/background of error characters in a font.
+ Add basic file search (based on filename)
+ Add: Reading fonts from a folder can be cancelled (Esc key)
+ Add common phrases and text which can be selected as sample text (and upper/lowercase option)
* Prevent clipping of rendered samples
* Improvements to paging links (add font names when hovering, improve calculation)
* Improve context menu (selections depend on selected font(s) status, etc)
* Update to .Net 4.6

v0.8.0.0:
+ Add menu item to check for updates
+ Add .fontbag association so you can open fontbag files by double clicking.
+ Add actions for mouse wheel: Ctrl changes font size, Shift scrolls horizontally
+ Can drag/drop files to copy them to folder being browsed
* Confirm closing if a fontbag has unsaved changes

v0.8.1.0:
+ Can reorder font samples (click and drag)

 

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Selecting PHP command line version on HostGator shared host

Submitted by drew on

This took me a while to find, so I'm saving it somewhere I can find it again.

The easy way to select the PHP version used for web applications is to use the CPanel configuration tool. However, that doesn't work if you're using SSH and need PHP on the command line. Also, on HostGator, you can't create a symlink outside of your directory (such as to the global php).

You can find out what version you have with

$ php --version

If that's not the version you want, try a specific version like this (php55 is 5.5, etc):

Book Scanning Process

Submitted by drew on

 

Just to document this for next time. For reference, my books are 8 x 10.75 inches and other dimension below work for this. For approximately 100 pages, It takes me about 45 minutes to scan, an hour to crop and rotate, and 30 minutes to organize and generate the PDF.

Fixing features for hotfolder

Submitted by drew on

Here is some documentation about the process I used to solve some issues with hotfolder and the features module. I was doing this partly through the web interface and partly through a console, so this is a reconstruction of what I remember and the console log. 

 

I was getting the following error message when I tried to check hotfolder watches (see https://www.drupal.org/node/2453659):

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$field_watch_config_scheme

 

GIMP for Kids

Submitted by drew on

 

My daughter likes to draw on the computer. I don't remember exactly how it started, but she draws in GIMP using my Genius pen tablet, on my secondary monitor. I used to have Linux running in a VirtualBox with GIMP running on my second monitor for her, but VB doesn't completely work in Windows 10 yet. A while back I tried running GIMP on one of my Raspberry Pi's but it was just too sluggish to be useful, frustratingly slow for a (then) 3-year-old. It runs much better on a Raspberry Pi 2. It still lags if she goes crazy with a big brush, but it works.

Die Fly: Designing a better fly swatter

Submitted by drew on

I was looking through some of my old stuff for something and ran across this gem. If you need to put together a quick flyswatter, try this one I designed for a class in college (the famous Rube Goldberg project).

Here are a few excerpts from the attached PDF. If this doesn't convince you to build one (perhaps with several improvements as noted in the document), I don't know what will.