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Font SubmenuThis submenu is the access point for the main system Font Palette and other font related actions. There are three area of the EazyDraw user interface provided for interaction with font faces. The Classic Names submenu provides a traditional - extensive menu selector. The Graphic Details drawer has a full featured interface for inspecting and changing all aspects of a Text element font face, color and style. The System Font Palette provides an extensible system wide font interface. This will probably be very similar to the font palette provided by other OS X applications. A Text Area graphic must be selected to enable the Styles item. At this time the Styles panel does not work with Annotation text.
The Classic Names submenu may not contain all font families available. Other fonts may be shown on the system font palette that are not present on Classic Names submenu. There are several issues at the root of this problem, such as different postscript names that are currently in use, or other incompatibilities of older font family traits and names with the OS X system. The Classic Names submenu is only provided as a convenience, the system font palette is needed to work with fonts effected by these incompatibilities. The Classic Names submenu is provided for compatibility with OS X Carbon applications and utilities. One such utility, PopChar is especially useful when working with extended character sets. These utilities expect the traditional "Font Menu" provided on the EazyDraw font submenu. |