Is the font New York available on winDoze? 

I agree, courier is an excellent choice for the font. 

We should use fonts which are standard and readily available on both platforms
- helvetica is not unreadable in bold format at 12 points and up.

I suppose palatino is also unavailable... what fonts are available cross
platform? because, yeah, helvetica 12 standard is unreadable. 

WARNING: RANT FOLLOWS!

Rant on vectorial drawing systems: 

VECTOR GRAPHIX SUCK!!!

suck, i say, suck.

In fact, they suck raw eggs. 

I _hate vectorial drawing. 

DO you know WHY?

It is imprecise. Try to adjust a vectorial drawing by one pixel. Try. And
watch me laugh ... and scream...

The _only advantages of vectorial drawing are:
1) lower storage capacity - which is solved with gif and jpeg
2) easy transformation (shrink/grow) - which has also been solved, at least in
2d
3) the potential for 3d representations - which i have yet to see in a bit map
format - but which i do expect to see because:
a) memory is growing all the time, whether ram or hard disk storage space
b) bit maps are fare more precise both in drawing and in placing. Try to draw
a vectorial line exactly n-pixels from another vectorial object. Try.

eahahaharharhahh!!!

ps - bit maps are why the mac dominated and continues to dominate the art
world (and will continue thanks to DVD and pixlar). The mac classic, despite a
miniscule screen offered:
sharp contrast and precision - you _know where that pixel is
wysiwyg - you draw a picture in macpaint on a classix and print it and pixel
by pixel, its _exactly the same.

Thus, i _still own copies of MacPaint, MacPaint II, and even MacDrawPro -
which by the way has some decent - and _only decent vectorial artwork.

Oh, check out the addcolor bitmap color drawing tools - they are quite nice.

Last reason why bitmap rules, ok:  scanning. 

So... if we could have a drawing editor oriented towards the bitmap drawing
programs listed above rather than _any vectorial system I would be much
happier (though I admit vectorial works -sort of- for placing buttons and
fields. It is still imprecise, i.e. one pixel realignments are simply
painful). 

ENd of RANT

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