{"id":230,"date":"2011-11-21T13:46:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-03-23T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:38:04","slug":"those-small-nice-tools-we-all-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Those small nice tools we all write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us out there writes small tools to just solve a simple task that you need. Here, I will present a tool I needed last night.<\/p>\n<p>I have a small job doing a wordpress site for some people, and I needed a image with the site title in a font matching some specific criteria (like a double story lowercase A and a small serif on lowercase L, while in general being a Sans Serif type). <\/p>\n<p>So what I needed was a application that let me write a word or a phrase, and see it written with all available fonts on the system.<\/p>\n<p>So, it took a little more than a effective hour and 120 lines of code to come up with this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/fontapp.png\">Click to see image<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if anyone cares, I have pushed the sources to <a href=\"http:\/\/quickgit.kde.org\/?p=scratch%2Fsune%2Ffonts.git&#038;a=summary\" title=\"git.kde.org\">git.kde.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you also have various such small apps. Let&#8217;s see them. That&#8217;s also you Eike and your svgtoy app :)<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I learned from this app is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/ukij.org\/fonts\/\" target=\"_blank\">ukij fonts<\/a> targetted the Uyghyr language actually is very interesting also for western europeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us out there writes small tools to just solve a simple task that you need. Here, I will present a tool I needed last night. I have a small job doing a wordpress site for some people, and I needed a image with the site title in a font matching some specific criteria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-kde","category-pocket-projects","category-qt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}