frank gaude' wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: > >> Personally, rather than /quite/ the current situation, I think it might >> be worth looking at a more structured menu, eg: >> >> Helvectica >> - Regular >> - Oblique >> - Bold >> - Black >> - Bold Oblique >> - Book >> - .... >> Utopia >> - Bold >> - Black >> - Regular >> > Good luck with such an approach, Craig. I've watched over the years > with what Adobe has tried in that area. The problem starts with the > fonts and their headers not being uniform. You'll find it quite > difficult to sort through, parse the headers to get a meaningful way > to declare the subtitles of the font families, really to declare the > fonts of the individual typefaces. Good luck. I'm sure it can be made > to work for a select group of fonts from a select group of producers. > > I wish for something like you point to, but the two-column approach is > more than acceptable for keeping the font list short. > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > Frankly, there are TOO MANY fonts on my list. Doing a newsletter I try to use two or 3 fonts to keep the size of the Acrobat file down. I would simply like two lists. One list I could transfer the 'current fonts' to and the other list, 'all of the fonts'.
my $0.02 Tom
