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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: FinalCalc is OK
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 03:12:16 GMT
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- Ric Fischer (lighty@goodnet.com) wrote:
- : dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer) wrote:
- :
- : >rating. I'm sorry, they all agree and I still can't force the damn thing
- : >to talk about fonts in a meaningful way! It may be the best AMIGA
- :
- : Let me try to address this difficulty you're having. I believe I'm
- : replying to the second post regarding your font troubles. In both, I
- : have yet to read a meaningful description of what the problem is. Can
- : you help me out?
- :
- Meaningful description ... hmm. OK, Ric. I'll try. First let me
- say that I started with Final Copy when v1 was all there was and have
- upgraded regularly. Work has familiarized me with MS Word for Windows and
- MS Excel. And I've used a Mac. Fonts are not strangers to me - I only
- have a couple hundred varieties!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
-