Tired of straining your eyes trying to read the names of aliased files because Apple chose to display them in a hard-to read italic style? Use one of these fonts instead and alias file names will be displayed in your choice of easy-to-read underlined or bold instead of italic.
Installation is simple -
Move the font in your System file named "Geneva (italic) 9" to another location to save it in case you want to return to the italic version, then move either of my fonts with the same name into your System file and re-boot the Mac. Despite the fact that the names say italic (which I kept to avoid any unknown System conflicts), you will have an underlined or bold Geneva 9 instead of italic. Either is FAR more readable on the screen, but still distinguishes an alias file from a normal one.
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If you use underlined-
Changes from the normal Geneva 9 to the underlined version:
1) All characters are shifted up two pixels in order that the underline does not interfere with descenders.
2) Lower-case accented "a"s changed to agree with non-accented "a."
3) Upper-case accented characters shortened vertically to accommodate the underline.
Caveat:
Although this font was intended for use with the Finder, it will be used ANYWHERE you select Geneva 9 italic. Because of the 2-pixel upward shift of the characters, it will not line up with the plain Geneva 9 when used in a text situation. It will, however, print on a LaserWriter as normal Geneva 9 italic, not as underlined, because only the bitmap (screen font) has been altered, not the TrueType, which is what the printer uses. Other sizes of Geneva are normal. Non-PostScript printers, will however, print the font shown on the screen.
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If you use bold-
Changes from the normal Geneva 9 to the bold version:
1) Lower-case accented "a"s changed to agree with non-accented "a."
2) Characters are wider.
Caveat:
Although this font was intended for use with the Finder, it will be used ANYWHERE you select Geneva 9 italic. It will, however, print on a LaserWriter as normal Geneva 9 italic, not as bold, because only the bitmap (screen font) has been altered, not the TrueType, which is what the printer uses. Other sizes of Geneva are normal. Non-PostScript printers, will however, print the font shown on the screen.
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And you might have wondered...
1) I prefer the bold.
2) These fonts are 100% in the public domain and anyone is permitted to distribute or change them in any manner they desire. They work for me & they should for you, but don't blame me if you have a problem...
3) I used Fontastic to edit the standard fonts.
Howard Upchurch
America Online Address: HowardU
P.S. Now that this irritation is out of the way, has anyone figured out yet how to get rid of those damn zoom boxes in the Finder???
