A new feature in Leopard’s Font Book is the ability to print out three different reports about all your fonts. They’re very useful for everyone from professional designers to the casual user creating newsletters in Pages.
First, of course, launch Font Book. It’s in your Applications folder. Then, choose the fonts you want to report on (you can select consecutive fonts in the list with the shift key, and nonconsecutive items with the command key). You can select all by choosing Select All from the Edit menu if you want to report on all of your fonts, but be aware that a full report on my MacBook Pro was over 500 pages. It’s a good thing I saved the document as a PDF instead of printing a physical copy!
With the fonts selected in the Font column, select Print from the File Menu. In the print box, look for the pull down menu next to Report Type, and you’ll see three available reports: Catalog, Repertoire, and Waterfall.
Selecting Catalog will print sample text for each font selected, and you can specify the size of the text in the print dialog box by dragging the Sample Size slider. Repertoire will print out each and every glyph available for the fonts selected, and again you can drag the Size slider to specify how large you want each glyph to print out. Finally, Waterfall prints a line of sample text at various sizes on a single page. You can still select the sizes for the sample text in the print dialog box just as long as they fit on the same page.