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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Copy II
- Message-ID: <69060@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 14:04:36 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- References: <key1Yye00WB447B6Iu@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.applications: 4-Nov-92 Re: Final
- >Copy II by Michael Grom@sputnik.rhe
- >> In article <sevTPb200WCXAa2GgV@andrew.cmu.edu> Sun Kun Kim
- ><kimski+@CMU.EDU> wri
- >> tes:
- >> > Well, I ordered my copy on Thursday and by yesterday afternoon, I was
- >> > playing with its drawing tools. :-)
- >> >
- >> > I must say that I am impressed with what SoftWood has done. I have been
- >> > using ProWrite 3.2 for the past year and Final Copy really shines. The
- >> > Thesaurus gives you the actual meaning of words!! The print set-up is
- >> > EASY!! It was not confusing as it was in ProWrite 3.2 where you must
- >> > mess with options-galore to get a 'jaggie-free' printing. In Final Copy
- >> > II, I click PRINT, and I got SMOOTH characters. The only thing I didn't
- >> > like about it was it's naming of the fonts and how you choose fonts. It
- >> > was a little awkward.
- >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >> Simply rename the fonts to the names of their PS equivalents,
- >> they will be still accepted by FCII.
- >>
- >
- >Yes, that solves the naming... but choosing fonts is still "awkward". I
- >have to go into a file requester to choose fonts(once I use them, it
- >stays in memory and on the menu). Anyone know of a way to load it into
- >the menu automatically when you start up? I guess the only option would
- >be to write a macro that will load in all the fonts...
-
- Bingo. You've got it. That's one of the arexx macros that come with FCII,
- it auto loads a number of fonts. You can tweak it to fit your own needs.
- Still, I think we shouldn't have to fool with an arexx font, it should be
- added to a font_config or such.
- >
- > Alex...
- >\ Alexander Sun Kim e-mail: sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu /
-
- -Joel
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