Font - Show System Font Palette

You can choose the font family, typeface, size, and other characteristics from the system font palette.

The font selections are used to change normal text on the drawing and oriented or annotation text.

If a text graphic is being edited; changes are applied to the selected range of the text. When not editing a specific text graphic; the changes will apply to all the text of all selected text grpahics, text and/or annotations. Undo works in all cases.

All of the actions possible with the font palette are provided on the Graphic Details drawer. This approach may be more convenient than opening the full Font Palette as the Graphic Details drawer will occupy less area of your display screen. The Graphic Details inspector provides access to additional information and characteristics that are not found on the Font Palette.

You may choose the desired font, font size and typeface using the menus and tables found on the System Font Palette. Changes will show on the drawing as they are made on the palette.

A convenience popup menu for selecting font family is provided near the bottom of the palette. This popup menu shows the most recently used font families at the top of the menu.

Use the Set Current as Default button to assign the currently active font family, typeface, and size as the default setting. This means that the any new text graphics will start with these settings. This is persistent when you quit and restart EazyDraw.

The font Toolbar button, shown to the right may be added to the Toolbar using the customize Toolbar menu command found on the main menu.

The top portion of the Font Palette is actually part of your OS X installation. You will find this palette used by most of your OS X applications. The particular form shown here may change in the future as you upgrade your OS X system software. You may find other more extensive documentation on Apple's web site or other resources on the world wide web.

A seperate application called Font Book is provided with your OS X installation. This is found in your applicaions folder. It is a good tool for reviewing the the fonts available on your system.