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Dear extension author,
Please publish this extension to the Open VSX marketplace.

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Unfortunately, as Microsoft prohibits usages of the Microsoft marketplace by any other products or redistribution of .vsix files from it, in order to use VS Code extensions in non-Microsoft products, we kindly ask that you take ownership of the VS Code extension namespace in Open VSX and publish this extension on Open VSX.

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I'm using Font Preview v2.2.1 on a Linux remote from macOS. I tried opening a few fonts (WOFF and TTF) and they never load. The status bar shows “Rendering font” and the editor window remains white.

Always loading.

font file:
SourceHanSansSC-Regular.otf.zip

Please provide sample text in settings to change for other languages

implement display of usWeightClass

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/os2
https://developer.apple.com/fonts/TrueType-Reference-Manual/RM06/Chap6OS2.html

When I'm comparing a few different fonts it'd be nice to be able to change what font file I have open and stay on the same tab, rather than always going to the preferred tab. Thanks for the great extension btw :)

It would be helpful if we could easily add our own example text that can be quickly loaded up, like the current preview examples.

Hi
Very nice to use your extension, avoids moving out of VSCodium to an external viewer !

But I encountered a small issur with "Iosevka NF" font, a Nerd Font with a lot of glyphs :

The top bar with buttons for groups of 200 glyphs is spilling outside the right edge of the window, with button "3400-3599" partially visible.
So even on a 34'' display not all the buttons can fit the width even with the left toolbar (Explorer/Search/etc) closed.

Possible solutions:

• Move this button bar into a container that will make the flow fit inside (à la html "display" property set in a div)
• Make the size of display groups configurable instead of default 200 ; at least from an extension settings property, but an input/select in the font display page would be much better.
  In standard HTML this is trivial, but I know nothing about VSCode extensions, so may be that's not as simple as in HTML.
  That would be great anyway !

This is a feature request for a setting that I can change so that when previewing a font it always opens on my preferred tab.
In my case, I would like it to always open on the "Glyphs" tab.

This is a great extension, thank you!

Sorry but I'm not seeing the same view as the preview. I pressed F1 which is my keybinding for looking at the command pallette. I typed "Font" and waited to see if "Font Preview" showed up but nothing. Then looked in the side bar for a tab showing "Font Preview" but didn't see anything. Went to the keyboard settings and typed "Font Preview" but no keybinding. Went to develper reload and reloaded the window but still can't find the extension. Shut down and restarted but still no preview. Can someone just explain how to see this extension? I uninstalled it and reinstalled it but still nothing.

Expected: an entry in the command pallette called View Font Preview
Actual: nothing found called Font Preview in VS Code

The "Type Yourself" is nice a nice way to quickly view how a certain character looks, but if I want to view metrics for that character, it can be difficult to find in large font files.

The addition to the "Glyphs" page, it would be helpful to have:

1. A character & unicode lookup which would open the glyph inspector directly, if one was found.
2. A filter option which would only show glyphs that match the given criteria. (Contour points, advance width, name matching etc)

Great tool by the way, incredibly useful. Thank you.

This extension should be activated only when used.