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- From: TAOBERLY@news.delphi.com (TAOBERLY@DELPHI.COM)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter V.401 Fonts?
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 01:12:54 -0500
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
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- > That isn't a "problem", it's a design consideration. Previously
- > you would load a font by opening the Text menu, drop down to Font, then
- > scoot over to either Open or the name of the font from the list of those
- > already used in that document. The presentation is different, but the
- > process is similar. I suspect that Softwood did it this way to save
- > memory where possible. Don't complain about the font bar, it's a handy
- > addition that works well - for me, at least.
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- I recently upgraded from Final Copy II and have wanted to comment on this.
- The font/tool bar is a good idea...I've been using the program for about
- three weeks and the style buttons and the size/justification/line spacing
- pop up menus really do come in handy. But having to go through *two*
- requesters to load a new font is the pits! This, plus having to use the
- type specs box to change things like font width (and always having to
- tick those little boxes for width, style, etc. even if the current text
- is _already_ using that variation) balances out the speed improvements
- from the font bar. IMHO it's one big step forward and one big step back.
- I would much prefer Final Copy's pull-down menu for loading new fonts and
- changing settings that won't fit on the font bar. Seems it would be a lot
- faster. I also wish there would be a way to filter off the _Bold, _Italic,
- and _BoldItalic extensions in the load requester and in the popup font menu,
- like the way some requesters will exclude .info files. After all, isn't
- the purpose of the font bar to isolate the user from all the physical font
- files? I don't know how this would work for Computagraphic and Postscript
- fonts, but Softwood uses a custom requester system anyway, so I imagine
- it's do-able.
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- The type specs requester has that "Set Default" tick box, but being able to
- set more than one would also be cool!
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- Todd
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