It seems that Just Another Foundry's incredibly useful text generator is not there anymore. Does anyone know of a similar tool? I'd use adhesiontext but I like JAF's generator for the accented character support and punctuation. Cheers in advance!
It will let you generate dummy text for a number of languages or you can import your own word list if you need something more custom. Plenty of config options as well.
I “upgraded” my account at the hosting company a couple of weeks ago and then found out that the new server does not support Python any more. Sorry about this. I have just enquired whether there is a way to get the Python scripts to work again but I am not very optimistic.
Also, I will port the code to C++ in the next few months for another big project I am working on, and I could make a free Glyphs plug-in as a side-product if that helps.
Small update: It seems I will be able to get the current Python version to work again on my server if I use a small PHP wrapper and move to Python 3. Right now, I am too busy but it should be doable by the end of the month.
Okay, confirmed. My my hosting company (DomainFactory) silently made a change that broke my scripts, this time, without me making or requesting any changes, and without a warning or notification. Not what I would expect from a respectable company. They have become quite useless in recent years. Can anyone recommend a good web hosting service available to German customers?
Thanks for the suggestion, Simon. I’d be looking for top-notch customer service and reliability rather than cheap pricing. Maybe their other products are worth having a look, though.
Update: The generator is fixed again, for now, using a PHP wrapper. Needless to say, without any meaningful support from my hosting service. Let’s see how long it lasts this time.
Not to open a separate thread for a related question:
Is there a generator that lists all required pairs? For example, I would like to see how cap B looks with all the other cap letters (or just some of them, etc.)?
Guess it's super easy for those who use Python but asking for the rest of us
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It will let you generate dummy text for a number of languages or you can import your own word list if you need something more custom. Plenty of config options as well.
https://github.com/justanotherfoundry/text-generator
Here are a couple of similar projects I've been involved with:
Is there a generator that lists all required pairs? For example, I would like to see how cap B looks with all the other cap letters (or just some of them, etc.)?
Guess it's super easy for those who use Python but asking for the rest of us
I would need a text generator that lists all pairs between two specified sets of characters.
For example, I specify that:
Set 1 is (A,B,C)
Set 2 is (X, Y, Z)
And then I get the pairs list:
AX AY AZ BX BY BZ CX CY CZ
In other words, I need a simple pair generator.
http://www.junikstudio.com/kernings/
It seems that you can't filter just some problematic pairs to inspect, but rather make a thorough font test. Great testing tool anyway.
BxaBxbBxcByaBybBycBzaBzbBzcB
CxaCxbCxcCyaCybCycCzaCzbCzcC