On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 03:08:53 +1000 (EST)
> From: Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: print preview screenshot
> > http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg
> >
>
> Hi Marc,
> This is really nice work and will be a significant new feature for
> us. However I was wondering if you could go one better and display the
> font name in the font itself within the drop down box.
>
> ie So the font "Comic Sans MS" is displayed in Comic Sans MS font.
>
> This is what MS Word 2000/97 does.
but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally unrecognisable !
word 97 does not seem to do this, just as in Abiword you have to go to
the font dialog to get a font preview (or at least not in my version)
I cannot recall how newer versions of microsoft word do this so i am
probably misunderstanding or there is probably some way to do this
properly.
This seems to be exactly what this feature request is asking for
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3293
This would be less of a problem if changing the font did not cause Abiword
to lose the selection. I would have sworn there was a bug for this but i
have not found it.
i would really like to see this tho'
http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/dev/abi/ui/microsoft-word97_fonts_fonttoolbarMostRecentlyUsed_003.png
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1765
Most recently used fonts
> To do it in GTK 2 would require modification of the combo box widget I
> think. Seth Nichol thinks this would be "rather easy" :-)
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
http://abisource.com
http://gnome.org
http://mozilla.org
