hwedhlor wrote: > I had occasion to build a "Mother's Tree" chart just now based on one > illustrated in the current online issue of Legacy News. The author > did not identify the font used in the sentiment quoted at the bottom > of the chart, so after I had keyed in the sentiment text I clicked on > "Text Settings" and used the dropdown list of fonts to begin > searching for a suitable font. > > I have 1373 fonts installed on my system. The font dropdown list does > not display the fonts in their final form, but rather shows them all > in the same style, so it was not easy to choose those that were good > candidates for this text. To make matters even more difficult, once I > selected a font to try, and found it to be unsatisfactory for the job, > when I clicked on the dropdown list again I found that I had to scroll > back down to where the unsatisfactory font was listed alphabetically > in order to continue my search. > > My proposal is that fonts be displayed in the dropdown as they will > appear on the chart, style-wise, and that Legacy Charting be coded to > "remember" the last font selected, to avoid having to scroll back to > that location in the dropdown list to resume a search. > > I am aware that some fonts would not display well in the dropdown in > their "native" style due to various sizes of their characters in > comparison to other fonts, but better to have some idea of what a font > looks like than to have to guess based on the font name, which often > provides little clue about how the font actually will appear. One > solution to the native character size differences would be to provide > a larger field for the fonts in the dropdown list. An example of the > sort of dropdown display I favor may be found in Microsoft Word. > > Regards, > > John Zimmerman > Mesa, AZ >
John, I really don't understand why Legacy should provide a font viewer for fonts which were isntalled by Windows, yourself or other software which you installed. I would suggest that you get the Free and Easy Font Viewer form http://www.styopkin.com/, which does as it say on the tin. It also has the comparative sizes of the fonts. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
