Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!boulder!stan!dce
From: dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MenuFonts 2.02
Keywords: menufonts
Message-ID: <618@salgado.stan.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 21:50:40 GMT
References: <1989Mar16.144238.21189@csuchico.uucp>
Reply-To: dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
Lines: 30

In article <1989Mar16.144238.21189@csuchico.uucp> robin@csuchico.uucp (Robin Goldstone) writes:
>I recently bought MenuFonts 2.02, a program which displays the font names
>listed in the Fonts menu in the acutal font.  This program looked handy 
>I can never remember what many of the fonts look like...It was recommended
>by MacUser magazine as well.  Cost: $30 from MacWarehouse.
>
>Well, the software is a total dog!  After installation (it is an init)
>it causes extensive disk overhead on my system.  System startup takes
>10 seconds longer, and statup of Word jumps from 6 seconds to 27 seconds.
>The overhead even exists on programs that don't use MenuFonts!  

I can't comment on this specific software, but I can comment on two
things:

1. The recommendations in MacUser magazine should never be your only
   reason to buy something.  I bought Icon-It!, which looks good in
   MacUser (4 or 4.5 mice), but is really unuseable, on the sole basis
   of the MacUser recommendation.  I don't think that magazine
   reviewers generally have enough time to do a thorough job of using
   the programs before the reviews are due.

2. SuitcaseII will display font names in their own font, but you can
   configure it to only do so on request (in fact, that's the
   default).  There is also a Suitcase screen that displays "the quick
   brown fox..." in the requested font.  In general, I find my purchase
   of SuitcaseII to be the best money I've spent on software so far.

-- 
David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno