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<h2>Comparison of fonts</h2>
<p>When you have narrowed down your search results to maybe a dozen of fonts, you might like to compare them side by side.</p>
<h3>Adding fonts for comparison</h3>
<p>Go to <em>Playground</em> tab in the main window.</p>
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<li>In <em>Browse Fonts</em> sidebar click on a font that you want to add to comparison area.</li>
<li>Inside the tab pick a fonts size of interest.</li>
<li>Click anywhere on the canvas area. A text cursor will briefly flasj to indicate the place where your text will start.</li>
<li>Just type in some text</li>
<li>In <em>Browse Fonts</em> sidebar click on another font that you want to add to comparison area.</li>
<li>Keep repeating steps 1-5 till you are done</li>
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<h3>Comparing fonts</h3>
<p>Fontmatrix takes a somewhat unusual step away from a traditional table way
of laying out text lines rendered with different fonts. What is suggests instead
is a huge zoomable comparison area where you can drag text lines around, freely
regroup them and pan around.</p>
<p>Contrary to <em>Sample Text</em> tab playground <em>always</em> uses native
Qt font rendering engine, so you can freely zoom in and out and never see ugly
pixel blocks.</p>
<p>Having added a dozen of text lines rendered with different fonts you surely
might not remember which one is which. Just hover on a text line to see a tooltip
saying which font font was used. Location and name of the font comes as a bonus.</p>
<p>To move around a rendered line of text just click on it and drag to wherever
you want it to be. If you want to move several lines of text, press <b>Ctrl</b>
and keep clicking on text lines until your group is selected or, if they are
already nicely layed out, draw a rubberband frame around them to select them.
Then drag them all elsewehere. To remove current selection just press <b>Escape</b>
or click on blank space outside any text line.</p>
<p>Navigation in the comparison area is easy: press middle mouse button to pan
and use <b>Ctrl</b>+<b>mouse wheel</b> to zoom in and out. You can even do both
having a selection of text lines.</p>
<h3>Cleaning playground</h3>
<p>To remove existing text lines select them and press <b>Delete</b>.</p>
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