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 Message 42377 
 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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