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- From: drew@fnbc.com (Drew Davidson)
- Subject: Re: Any chances of an improved Font Panel mechanism?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.135907.5916@fnbc.com>
- Sender: news@fnbc.com
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- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <by+y7zm@rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:59:07 GMT
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- In article <by+y7zm@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- writes:
- >
- > In an article in comp.sys.next.software
- > subject: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
- > tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro) writes:
- >
- > > Since Glenn has taken us to the issue of rewriting objects for
- > > convenience and/or improved function, how about the Font Panel?
- > > Are any "improvements" planned for in 3.0? Like a shelf for
- > > frequently used fonts? or maybe make the "panel" into a browser
- > > where you can make "folders" of fonts for specific types of
- > > documents? etc. etc. All I've done with my machine is to add
- > > the various PD fonts off of Sonata, plus the ones that came with
- > > Illustrator, but I still get very tired of having to scroll through
- > > all those fonts repeatedly to use just a few again and again on a
- > > certain document. Any hopes this will be improved? or is this
- > > somehow more difficult than I think?
- > >
- > > (As an incentive to Glenn, I bet if the font panel were more
- > > convenient people would be more interested in buying additional
- > > fonts)
- >
- > I'm also interested in seeing improvements to the font panel. I'm not sure
- > which changes would do the most good, but once you have a lot of fonts the
- > current selection mechanism does get unweildy.
- >
- > I picked up Stylist for this, and it helps a bit. I've also gotten used to
- > "command-3 command-4"-ing in a document to copy a font from one place to
- > another. I think it'd be nice if we could come up with some thing better
- > than that though.
- >
- > Any takers? :-)
- >
- > --
- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- > ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
-
- David Pollack, the author of Mesa, has written an extension to the Font Panel
- which is really cool. He adds a matrix below the normal Font panel that has
- chips, like in the color panel. You can just put your most commonly used fonts
- down there and drag them around the screen exactly like you can drag and drop
- color chips.
-
- I also like Tom's idea of making the Font Panel a generalized browser that you
- can organize as you wish. It's getting ridiculous!
-
- Just my $2 x 10^-2
-
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- | Drew Davidson | The perfect development team: |
- | Software Guy | One person paid per line of code written |
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- | drew@fnbc.com (NeXTmail) | - Frank Mitchell |
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