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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?   :-)
> 

We have a extended the font panel in Mesa to provide drag and drop font  
support (the preview window acts just like a color well.)  Please take a  
look at the demo version of Mesa on the archives.  I will provide an  
unsupported copy of the code to developers who can make good use of it.

David

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