one wasy is to use Adobe Type Manager (ATM). I'm pretty sure it's a free download. With it, you not only can look at the fonts before hand, but also enable and disable fonts as you need them to speed up yer puter (I dunno bout you, but I once loaded about a thousand fonts at one time just to see what would happen, and it scarred me for life). ATM will show you the fonts in regular, bold, italic, etc.