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In article <by+y7zm@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
> 
> In an article in comp.sys.next.software
>    subject: In-line graphics (was Re: SoftPC 2.0 or 3.0)
>    tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro) writes:
> 
> > Since Glenn has taken us to the issue of rewriting objects for
> > convenience and/or improved function, how about the Font Panel?
> > Are any "improvements" planned for in 3.0?  Like a shelf for
> > frequently used fonts?  or maybe make the "panel" into a browser
> > where you can make "folders" of fonts for specific types of
> > documents?  etc. etc.  All I've done with my machine is to add
> > the various PD fonts off of Sonata, plus the ones that came with
> > Illustrator, but I still get very tired of having to scroll through
> > all those fonts repeatedly to use just a few again and again on a
> > certain document.  Any hopes this will be improved?  or is this 
> > somehow more difficult than I think?
> > 
> > (As an incentive to Glenn, I bet if the font panel were more 
> > convenient people would be more interested in buying additional
> > fonts)
> 
> I'm also interested in seeing improvements to the font panel.  I'm not sure  
> which changes would do the most good, but once you have a lot of fonts the  
> current selection mechanism does get unweildy.
> 
> I picked up Stylist for this, and it helps a bit.  I've also gotten used to  
> "command-3 command-4"-ing in a document to copy a font from one place to  
> another.  I think it'd be nice if we could come up with some thing better  
> than that though.
> 
> Any takers?   :-)
> 
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
> ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

David Pollack, the author of Mesa, has written an extension to the Font Panel  
which is really cool.  He adds a matrix below the normal Font panel that has  
chips, like in the color panel.  You can just put your most commonly used fonts  
down there and drag them around the screen exactly like you can drag and drop  
color chips.

I also like Tom's idea of making the Font Panel a generalized browser that you  
can organize as you wish.  It's getting ridiculous!

Just my $2 x 10^-2

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