waterfall(1)

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View all characters of font in all sizes

Usage

waterfall [OPTION] ...

Overview

With waterfall, you can browse characters of font in different rendering configurations. There is line for each font size from 5px to 36px - thus the name “waterfall”. Following parameters can be changed and view is updated immediately on screen: font size range and increment, hinting, autohinting, anti-aliasing, subpixel smoothing, and aspect.

Options

waterfall doesn't have own options but all GTK and GDK options are recognized.

Releases

Unchanged in 10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–13

Author

This program is written by Noah Levitt. It uses GTK+ 2 and Xft libraries and is improved version over Keith Packard's waterfall program that uses X Athena Widgets library (Xaw) for user interface. Both programs are written in 2003.

This manual page is written by Ognyan Kulev <[email protected]> for the Debian project.

From gwaterfall 0.1-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.