Font or TTFviewer -- help or updates?

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Font or TTFviewer -- help or updates?

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I have been using the
font.wlx (http://users.telenet.be/liontech/Downloads.htm)
plugin from Liontech for a long time. But as it does not work with OpenType Fonts (see http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=98506#98506) and hasn't been updated since 2005, I gave the other font viewer a chance, which is
TTFviewer (http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/TTFviewer.html)
by Murashka, latest version also from 2005.
This does work with OTF fonts, but I can't change the codepage / glyph selection. There's a dropdown-box on the top right, but it doesn't change a thing. Does this work with anyone? (my System: WinXP SP3, TC 7.56a)

If Murashka (Alexey Pankratiev) is still around - do you take suggestions for an updated version?
I noticed one can edit the textfile that is used for the examples. But I still would like to be able to have a way to see different examples or write my own "on the fly", while the plugin is running. "font.wlx" did that with a tab where you could write whatever you like.

Or if Liontech (Peter Stuer?) still has interest in the plugin - could you add OTF support, please? The glyphs display worked great for most fonts, the (partial?) unicode support is very useful!

Thanks!
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2jj42
Maybe this will help you:

AKFont - pretty new (most recent version 2011) WLX plugin.
"When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose." Facebook...

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Post by *jj42 »

Thank you! This seems like a very good plugin. It works fine with OTF, and lets me edit the sample text. I also like the thumbnail idea!
This should be on totalcmd.net, too. I would never have found it...

PS in case the developer is reading: the string that appears on right-click is not translated (it changes the tabs from top to bottom)
Also I'd love to have the Unicode groups, too (like font.wlx did, or the Windows charmap does)
Thanks for this plugin!
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