Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!apple!han From: han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Outline fonts and Font sizes Keywords: System 7.0 fonts Message-ID: <35525@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Oct 89 15:28:07 GMT References: <7994@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: Apple R&D - Networking & Communications Lines: 41 In article <7994@microsoft.UUCP> benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldmin) writes: >Suppose you're building a font menu or a list box with all font sizes that >are currently available in the currently selected font. > > > >But what happens when outline fonts come along? Does RealFont always >return TRUE for any size of an outline font? If so, then what kind >of menu/list box should one build--how many sizes should it include, and >what point sizes should those be? I personally kind of like MacDraw II's method of handling font size menus. Have a set of font sizes when the application initially comes up which the user can modify by adding/deleting sizes. For an initial selection of fonts, in an application that does word processing you might be better off with a nice selection of body type sizes like font sizes from 7, 8, 9, ... 14, and maybe a few smaller display font sizes (14, 18, 24, 36). Being able to nudge up the font size (or nudge down) by 1 point increments in a word processor would be nice. (Students especially appreciate being able to stretch papers to the desired length.) Hope this helps - this is my personal opinion and not an official Apple statement. I believe that RealFont will always return TRUE with an outline font - (it would be logical for it to do so) however, I am not with the outline font team so I may be wrong. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Disclaimer: Apple has no connection with my postings. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Byron Han, CommToolbox Scapegoat "How about *S-2 Overextended Edition?" Apple Computer, Inc. ----------------------------------------- 20525 Mariani Ave, MS27Y Internet: han@apple.COM Cupertino, CA 95014 UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!han ------------------------------------ GENIE:BYRONHAN CompuServe:72167,1664 ATTnet: 408-974-6450 Applelink:HAN1 HAN1@applelink.apple.COM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------