Thanks, CE. Excellent suggestion, and it's done. I would have suggested it on the Legacy Charting beta list, but that list has been gone for a bit now.
John On 5/12/2010 9:22 PM, CE Wood wrote: > Submit your suggestion by clicking on Legacy Home>Support>Suggest a new > feature. > > > CE > > -----Original Message----- > From: hwedhlor [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Font selection in Legacy Charting could be much more > convenient > > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2868 - Release Date: 05/11/10 > 11:40:00 > > > > > 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 > > > > > 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
