How to get a list of all available (TTF-) Fonts with XeTeX?

Question

Very neat that I can use any available Truetype font on my Windows machine with MikTeX and XeTeX.

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
\title{Fonttest}   
\begin{document} 
  \section{Section Title} {
    \setromanfont{Palatino Linotype}
      The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
  }
  \section{Section Title} {
    \setromanfont{ProggyCleanTTSZBP}
      The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
  }
\end{document}

Is there a way to automatically generate a font test page for every available font? So that I do not have to type a test page for every available font by hand?

Actually, I do not even know how to get to the Long Font Name required for \setromanfont -- short of typing it from the screen:

• The Windows directory only lists the file names, obviously.
• Maybe this can be done in TeX itself, but I could manage it with a Python script or such like.

Answer 1

Running fc-list utility, e.g. fc-list : family should do (you might need to post process the output for fonts that have localized names), but I'm not sure if texlive ships that part of FontConfig (it does not on Linux, but it is part of system tools anyway). You can also use fc-list -f "%{family}\n" for more customisable output. Check fc-list manual (very terse though, FontConfig's user guide can be a bit helpful as well).

Update: using fc-list :outline -f "%{family}\n" avoids listing bitmap only fonts which are unusable for TeX.