On 05/12/06, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > > > If so, what is it and how does one go about getting it? > > I wouldn't bother, myself. > > If after reading the above you still want one, I'd be very interested to > know why - what you think it'll gain you, what you need to be able to > do, etc.
Although kluding a fix for the stability issues of toy operating systems was certainly the primary reason for those tools, its important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Mac OS X has similar font-loading functionality/stability to GNU+Linux, but Suitcase has been ported to OS X and is still used by many professional graphic designers. What it gains you is the ability to create a hierarchic catalogue of your own fonts, arranged in whatever order you like. The utility of this to professional graphic designers should not be underestimated, despite that it is not neccessary for many non-professional graphic designers, which at the moment is the bulk of Scribus' user base. The popularity of Suitcase may seem surprising since Mac OS X includes this functionality in its native font chooser dialog as 'collections': http://www.unifont.org/fontdialog/images/TexEditPlusUsingMacOSXFontDialogComponent-WebVersion.png However, this is mostly (only?) used by software made with the Objective C Cocoa framework, and most design applications are ported from the old Mac OS using the Carbon framework. That's where Suitcase X comes in. Or Fonty Python - which on its homepage reads "As a designer, I missed the ability to view and keep lists of fonts in easy-to-use collections." -- Regards, Dave
