Ron I don't think that the request was for Legacy to install a font viewer, per se. Rather that Legacy should use the standard Windows font requester (as used in Word and several other programs) instead of some other file requester. The advantage of the standard font viewer is that the font names appear in the font (I.e. Times New Roman appears in Times New Roman etc.) so you can tell what the font will look like before picking it.
As an aside, I wish Legacy would use standard Windows requesters all the time. The requester used to select a picture in Picture Gallery is a pain to use. Cheers Tony On 13/05/2010 4:41 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.14980) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.14980) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= 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
