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From: cep@apple.com (Christopher Pettus)
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Subject: Re: "Font" pull down menu question.
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Date: 27 Apr 89 00:04:59 GMT
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In article <6302@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> wargo@odin.ucsd.edu (Dave Wargo) writes:
> What I would like to do is have the "Font" pull down menu show the
> actuall font it says that it is.
> 
> What resource would have to be changed to do this?

The standard MDEF always displays the items in 
the system font (for most systems, that's Chicago).  The only way to get a 
Font menu which displays in the font itself is by writing a custom MDEF; 
fortunately, that's not too hard unless you want to support ALL of the 
features of the standard MDEF, including color and hierarchical submenus.  
Fortunately, it's a rare FONT menu that would want to do that.

Two other things to consider: 1) Drawing something in lots of fonts can be 
very, very slow, since the Font Manager has to suck every font into 
memory, one at a time, perhaps rescaling it in the process; and, 2) Many 
fonts don't contain the Roman alphabet (for example, Zapf Dingbats), and 
thus displaying the name of the font in the font itself would not be 
particularly useful to the user.

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