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   Message 28,811 of 30,566   
   Alan K. to Dan Purgert   
   Re: viewing a group of uninstalled fonts   
   29 Jul 25 17:46:02   
   
   From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 7/29/25 5:36 PM, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2025-07-29, Alan K. wrote:   
   >> I may be old, but I'm not that inept yet.   It sure should be a   
   >> function of Mint to open a folder (and subs) and allow you to scroll   
   >> through and see previews.  font viewer and font manager let you come   
   >> close but won't present a list like you see in installed fonts.   
   >   
   > I don't think I've ever seen a preview thing for *un*installed fonts (as   
   > per your subject); but that being said I also don't particularly go   
   > looking for them anymore.   
   >   
   > Maybe it was a feature of a different file explorer that you're not   
   > using anymore?   
   >   
   I'm going brain dead.  You're comment about "a different file explorer" made   
   me just open   
   nemo and view 'icon view' and scale the icons larger.   That's about as good   
   as I wanted.   
   I can browse around and see what's there.   
      
   I have some 1,100+ fonts (files actually) in that folder.   Some are zips so   
   the count   
   could be higher.   I didn't think it was that high but....   
      
   I just wanted to see what was in there.   Idle time on my hands.   
   Thanks Dan   
      
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