Despite the guarantees offered by the TrueType standard, users do not know how a font will look on paper until they print it. Any word processor can help with that, but the application Print My Fonts offers a much more convenient interface to visualize, select, and print the desired fonts, using phrases that help verify their real appearance and compatibility.
It has happened to me so many times that I cannot count them. Trusting that I had chosen a beautiful and elegant font, regret is total once I see it on paper. There are times when the printer needs to be cleaned and/or calibrated… and others when the font is simply horrible, no matter how it looks on screen.
Of course, the Fonts section in the Control Panel hasn't gone anywhere, but Windows expects the user to double-click each font to see samples, or settle for seeing only three letters. Needless to say, we need a more robust solution.
How do your fonts look on paper?
That's when Print My Fonts appears, a small program whose function is to assist in font visualization, check compatibility with advanced characters (for example, some fonts lack the ñ), and print multiple fonts at once. It is also an excellent resource for detecting the number of installed fonts on the system. In my case, there are 278 fonts… of which 250 or 260 are superfluous, to be honest. If no printer is available, Print My Fonts offers as an alternative to export the results to RTF or HTML documents, and BMP-JPG-PNG images.
Print My Fonts is free, portable, has no formal installation or strange background gifts. Among its advanced options we find export parameters such as font size and color, line spacing, background color, and maximum number of fonts per image (in case there are too many). To finish, its interface supports several languages, including Spanish.
