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Font Tester - preview variants of fonts

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Font Tester - preview variants of fonts

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Skin that lets you preview Your font-family, test which variants it supports etc. Uses Inline Settings

jsmorley's RainRGB included in .rmskin

Requires at least: Rainmeter 4, Windows Vista

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Tip: Left Mouse Click on preview text to copy InlineSetting-s to clipboard
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Re: Font Tester - preview variants of fonts

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This is very handy! Thank you! My only complaint is that the skin doesn't remember what was the last font-size after changing font name.
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Left Mouse Click on "Size" saves currently selected one.
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Re: Font Tester - preview variants of fonts

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CSoftwareRainmeterSkinsFontTesterFontTester.ini_t1.png
Font Tester_1.1.rmskin
Minor update to "skin" / tool
- Background transparency and color can be changed
-- Mouse Scroll on BG: ** to change transparency and Left Click to apply
-- Right Click to change background color with RainRBG
- Added few test strings to choose from (with custom context menu almost anywhere on the skin)
- Added Launch Icon for easy access when needed
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Brilliant! A surprise update that I wasn’t expecting. Thank you!
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Active Colors wrote: July 23rd, 2024, 9:01 pm Brilliant! A surprise update that I wasn’t expecting. Thank you!
Thank You. I'm Glad You like it.

Another update from feedback
CSoftwareRainmeterSkinsFontTesterFontTester.ini 2_t1.png
- Added Alpha Value to text color (Mouse Scroll on Color to adjust, Right Click to save)
- Swapped Background controls to act like text color (Left Click to open RainRBG, Mouse Scroll to adjust transparency, Right Click to save and apply)
- Added Character Spacing setting (in limited capability, abeit most used one) Mouse Scroll to adjust, Left Click to save
- Left Click on preview text now copies ready string meter
Font Tester_1.2.rmskin
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