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- From: lighty@goodnet.com (Ric Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalCalc is OK
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 16:19:00 GMT
- Organization: SoftWood, Inc.
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- dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer) wrote:
-
- > Final Calc does not use outline fonts on the screen. It uses
- >bit-mapped fonts. There is a utility somewhere in the menu scheme that
- >supposedly allows you to define what font you want to use on the screen
- >and what it will translate as when printed out. I cannot convince this to
- >locate my outline fonts. It also regularly ignores my requests to change
- >the bit-map being used on the screen.
-
- Look in the menus at "Settings->Print->Outline Fonts Paths..." It
- will allow you to tell the program where to find your fonts.
-
- > I have no problem with the two-font system. I'd just like to be
- >able to get something done with it. An answer like "move all your fonts
- >to your fonts directory" is likely to incite a stinging reply. If that is
- >how you designed the software, someone should be whipped. IMO you should
- >not rely on the user having an adequate supply of bit-mapped fonts or on
- >the user to know enough font metrics to make good matches. Either is
- >expecting a lot of anyone not a real font nut, both could strain even a
- >casual font nut.
-
- Actually, if I may be so bold, I believe you put the cart before the
- horse and gave the "stinging reply" before such a reply was sent.
-
- > From what I hear, you can't cut from Final Calc to Final Writer
- >anyway. Not properly, at least. Bad choice, IMO. I should be able to cut
- >a block from FC and paste it, as a graphic, in FW - with or without grid
- >lines. But that's another quibble.
-
- I agree. That is a feature that needs to be added. Having worked
- with/for the programmer/company for a while, I also understand what
- was involved in creating what is, I believe, an excellent spreadsheet.
- I consider it no small feat that Final Calc was released with such
- great strengths inherent in all the ways that count. This does not
- mean, however, that we are done with it. Quite the contrary, the
- programmer is gathering ideas for a new version.
-
- I appreciate your comments. I ask a favor of you, though. Please,
- have some patience. It took over 4 years for Khalid Aldoseri (the
- programmer) to complete Final Calc. It has everything I would want in
- a brand-new spreadsheet. With time, it will have even more.
-
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