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|  Digital Man to Wang Bu  |
|  SBBS Font Viewer?  |
|  13 Sep 25 18:36:38  |
 
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Re: SBBS Font Viewer?
By: Wang Bu to All on Sun Sep 14 2025 07:44 am
> Hello!
>
> I'm having fun playing around with the different fonts found in SBBS. I also
> recently installed the LORD2 font file in SBBS which allowed me to use it in
> my LORD2 CNW door game.
>
> Just wondering though, is there an existing "font viewer" app available that
> I can use so I can just browse through the fonts and see how it looks like,
> rather than me trying them out on my bbs manually everytime?
There's exec/fonttest.js, included with Synchronet, which requires a
font-capable terminal (e.g. SyncTERM).
For running locally (no terminal needed), there's programs like this one:
https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-font-editor/
--
digital man (rob)
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