Tony, You are exactly right, and I too wish that Legacy would use standard Windows requesters.
Cheers, John On 5/12/2010 11:54 PM, Tony Rolfe wrote: > 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 > > > > > 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
