Re: System Provided Font Menu?
Re: System Provided Font Menu?
- Subject: Re: System Provided Font Menu?
- From: Scott Ahten <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:50:23 -0500
On Feb 18, 2005, at 8:35 AM, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
There is none. OS X comes with so many fonts that it's hard to use
one, anyway. If you don't believe me, use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
for a while...
I use Photoshop and Word often and work with several other designers
who are constantly complaining about font problems. Unfortunately,
there doesn't seem to be a standard way to embed Font Panel
functionality into existing inspectors or app menus, so many developers
(like Microsoft) roll their own with, often resulting almost useless
type controls.
I would expect a font menu to take advantage of the font panel. In
particular, it should display font collections instead of the entire
list of fonts. Many fonts are installed because the system uses them
and they look good on screen, but I'd rarely use them in print design.
Also, I have numerous fonts that I use only in particular apps.
I agree. It would be very useful if users could define how fonts are
displayed on a global basis and hide / show collections in specific
applications.
I wrote a little class that implements a font menu. It's intended for
use in the menu bar, and doesn't do the submenus you mentioned above
yet, but I guess it could be a nice starting point. Find it at:
http://zathras.de/programming/sourcecode.htm#UKFontMenuController
If you use that as a basis, I'd be interested in any changes you make.
It displays a submenu for each font collection, or alternatively a
particular font collection. That way, people can pick on a
per-application basis which fonts the menu will show.
Just what I was looking for...
Thanks,
- Scott
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M. Uli Kusterer
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