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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: FinalCalc is OK
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:45:10 GMT
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- Ric Fischer (lighty@goodnet.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Looked there. Default is FinalCalc/Fonts and I have the supplied
- fonts in that directory. Nice to have enough disk space to support both
- Final Calc and Final Writer font directories. No, I don't believe I can
- share them as my FW fonts are categorized in drawers upon drawers for
- easy retrieval. Anyway, the option above Settings>Print>Outline Fonts
- Paths (Settings>Print>Outline Fonts?) shows only the fonts in my FONTS:
- directory. Attempting to set fonts this way seemed to produce no results.
-
- : >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
- :
- : 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.
-
- ? Surely you jest. That? Stinging? You must be from a kinder,
- gentler breed than I. But you did not come back with a simplistic (and
- erroneous) reply, and I will not verbally assault you. You are trying to
- help and it is decidedly bad manners to be nasty to folks who are trying
- to help.
- My other comments stand, though. Only a typographer has enough
- information to properly decide whether QueensPark is better represented
- by Riccione or Valencia. Or should that be the other way around? Topaz
- can go with any ugly 10-cpi font, but we have 100+ options available! Am
- I the only one who might want to use more than a handful of them?
-
- : 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 do not argue that.
-
- : 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.
- :
- My spreadsheet experience goes back over a dozen years. Back to
- SuperCalc on an Osborne! My wants/needs have changed over the years. It
- is no longer enough that I get the right answers to questions I pose.
- Though this is a very good start. It is no longer enough that it should
- be easy to ask the questions, though this, too, is good. The program must
- be easy to navigate, and this one often isn't. It must provide attractive
- output, and this is where I am having problems.
- Mr Aldoseri has been working on this program for four years and
- the Amiga community has been watching each of the other platforms perform
- for at least twice that long. This is not your fault, or his, or Woody's.
- This is history. Many of us were impatient before he started work on
- Final Calc. This sometimes shows through. My apologies if I seem to be
- taking _that_ frustration out on you guys.
- Suggestion for a later version: text wrap inside a cell.
- ============================================
- | | |
- |This is text | |
- |wrapped in a | 4 |
- |cell. | |
- | | |
- ===========================================
-
- Can be handy in some situations. Requires the ability to set row heigth.
-