Take a look at FontVista: http://www.thepowerxchange.com/product_1106_detailed.html

Ralf

http://www.fonts.info

Just like that but instead of sample text, it would print the font name in the typeface. for example, futura would print the name in futura. I had a program for os9 called Font lister that did it. it was buggy though.

Font gander pro did it also.

http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/fontbook.htm

font book does not have a layout that does this.

Thanks

I didn't know, but it's written FontBook, anyways.
Try http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/1693

Still not it. it should be for osX (classic apps only reads what's in the system folder)

Then buy this sir
http://www.typographie.de/verlagsverzeichnis/typografie/685-1.html

What is it? It's not in english.

I don't think there currently is any really good way to do what you are describing. Most tools that claim to do this tend to have reliability issues. The reason is that in order for the samples to be generated, all of the fonts have to be turned on. In most cases, people who are using this sort of tool have more fonts than can pracitally turned on at once. So, to really work well, the tool would have to turn fonts off and on as it went through the collection. If there are any bad fonts, the application would have to be able to handle it.
The same problem exists with WYSIWYG font menus, but to a lesser degree.

Personally, I've used an Applescript that generates an InDesign file from active fonts. You can get it here if you're interested.
http://www.portlandtype.com/news/?p=54

thanks