SHX Font Viewer

[THRobinson75]

Tried searching for answers, but just finding old obsolete links...

Is there a font viewer for SHX fonts? I grabbed a font pack to add a few more options to my list, about 500... and many are useless to me, but hard to weed them out based on the filenames. My Nexus Font viewer doesn't show anything, found an SHX shape viewer that didn't work either... hard to believe nothing exists.

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

Did you try the viewer from this post?

http://www.freecadapps.com/swdetails.php?page=search&value=&orgvalue=&review=4784&rowcolor=fce08d

Seems to work OK for me.

[THRobinson75]

Geez... I found that first but page is a bit of a mess... didn't realize I had to scroll a few pages worth to the right to find a link. 

Though looks like you need to buy a license and link to regosoft says can't be reached so, they aren't making it easy to use. 😄

But, last post in the link is right, you can drag/drop and view one-by-one for each file. 500+ files to check but at least this will let me weed out all the foreign language stuff that I'll never use. 

[jdfnnl]

In searching for a font viewer with shx support, has anyone established this solution? The links in this thread have by now broken ..

[guy.dow]

Just thought I'd keep this thread alive.
I've used that app for years, and then lost it when I swapped out a PC... wahhhhhh 😞 I think I picked up my copy in the late 90's and it worked all the way up to Win 10! Pretty nice...
Anyway, same thing here.  None of the links seem to work any more.

Thanks,

Guy

[drbboyd]

Any luck finding an shx font viewer?  Like you, I have a file full and the descriptions tell you nothing. 

[guy.dow]

Hey there!  Thanks for the reply.

No luck yet. I stumbled across a website that claimed to have it, but it looked pretty sketchy - I just couldn't bring myself to click/download/and run.

My immediate need passed, but I'm sure it'll come up again soon.  I keep thinking that I'll just write one using the oda libraries, but I can never find time.

Anyway, I'll keep my eyes open.  If I even stumble across it, I'll post it here. Hope you'll do the same.

Best regards,

Guy

[paullimapa]

I use the free Starshape app which you can download from their StarCAD website:

http://starcad.com/indexbdcf.html?q=en/node/4