cidfontview(1)

     NAME
          cidfontview - Display PostScript CID font viewer


     DESCRIPTION
          cidfontview allows the user to view text examples of the
          available CID resources like CID fonts and CID maps on a
          given X server. If the X server specified does not support
          the Display PostScript extension, a message is printed and
          the program exits.

          As cidfontview starts up, it displays a font selection
          panel, an area to display font samples, and a panel to
          select text demos.  Select a CID font and CMap combination
          by choosing a CID font, CID cmap and a size in the cid font
          selection panel.

          Four demos have been provided with cidfontview. The demos
          are Sample of 300 Characters, Text Wheel, Slanted Text, and
          Fountain.  All the above demos require users to enter a
          starting CID code. The demos will display a series of CID
          characters starting from the input CID code.  The preview
          button on the CID font panel creates a PS document that
          display every characters in the selected CID font and CID
          map combination. There are two numbers displayed with each
          character. The top number is the CID code (from the selected
          CID font) in integer and the bottom number is the CID
          mapping (from the selected cmap) in hex.  showps is used to
          display the PS document.

     DIAGNOSTICS
          Specifying the -debug option opens up a text context on
          stdout. All PostScript language code sent to the Display
          PostScript extension will be displayed on the screen.


     BUGS
          The preview option on the CID font panel doesn't work with
          CID maps with encoding that's longer than 2 hex bytes.


     AUTHOR
          Silicon Graphics Incorporated


     NOTES
          PostScript and Display PostScript are trademarks of Adobe
          Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain
          jurisdictions.