gfontview font convter and display program for Linux

• It displays a list with the PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts found in a directory. For the selected font in the list, it does a preview in the main window.
• It can display information about the selected font.
• It allows you to display a particular character or a string in a separate window, so that you can have several such windows for several fonts and directly compare them.
• It can save the displayed character, string or font table in GIF format.
• It can save a TrueType font as Type 42 PostScript font.
• It allows you to display all characters of the font (in several encodings for PostScript fonts) in a window. All the glyphs in the window can be further magnified by clicking on them (magnification factor according to the mouse key pressed).
• It can print a font sample by generating PostScript code with a sample of the font at different sizes. You can send this output to any PostScript printer or to ghostscript.
• In the case of TrueType fonts, they are downloaded as Type42 fonts. The font can be subsetted to include only the needed glyphs, feature important for big fonts.
• It can print a longer text in the selected font; this way you can see how a text typeset in the font would look like, even without installing the font.
• It can print all glyphs in the font together with size information.
• It can print a font catalog, with one font per line and a configurable text.
• It can save a file with the file name and font name of all fonts in the directory.

Web site: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/