Is there an application to simply preview a font from a TTF file without installing it?
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I use character maps heavily and decides to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation. Works best on Chrome.
It would depend upon the font formats that FreeBSD accepts in usr/share/syscons/fonts.
You can use FontForge to convert a TTF font into other formats. According to this blog post, FreeBSD accepts the Slackware .fnt.gz format (the .gz just indicates it is zipped).
The Linux console uses .psf.gz fonts. You might try one of those to see if it works, if so you could use PSF Tools to do the final conversion to that format.
If all that goes to plan, you can tell the console to use it with the vidcontrol command and then, if you wish to make it permanent, add it to your rc.conf. The blog post linked to above has the details.
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I use character maps heavily and decides to make one which you access from anywhere using a web interface and requires no installation. Works best on Chrome.
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