[Jack Png]

Hi All,
Have just got a iBook come with OSX 10.3 Panther.
Not sure how I can get to view the fonts as a family instead of having to scroll a long list of fonts.

Previous OS 9.2.2, I use Adobe Type Reunion.
Not sure if I use this software with OSX.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Jack Png
Email: jack@thinkcreative.com.sg

[Detrius]

Adobe Type Reunion is not compatible with OS X.

However, in 10.3, the default/correct way to view fonts is in a window that already groups all of the fonts by family (as with TextEdit).

[Jack Png]

Hi Detrius,
Thanks for your feedback.
The thing is can this be done in Macromedia Freehand MX
itself without leaving the application. So that you could choose the fonts there and than inside the application while you work.

Jack Png

[Spheric Harlot]

The font window is a standard OS component available to every application developer that gives a ****.

In TextEdit, for example, you can get it by hitting Cmd-T or by selecting "Show Fonts..." from the Font menu.

-s*

[workerbee]

Originally posted by Jack Png:
Hi Detrius,
Thanks for your feedback.
The thing is can this be done in Macromedia Freehand MX
itself without leaving the application. So that you could choose the fonts there and than inside the application while you work.

Jack Png

Nope.
None of the Macromedia apps have any font grouping at all. Adobe and Quark have built-in their own font grouping functionality, AFAIK, so that you get a sensible fonts menu without having to open a Font window.

What you could try is either You software's You control: fonts, which produces a font menu on the right hand side of the screen (and feels rather alien to use) or Unsanity's FontCard haxie, which was quirky when I used it (but then that may also have been FontBook not being stable).

Font handling in OS X is not what it should be, and less usable than it was in OS 8+ with Type Manager and Type Reunion.

[Jack Png]

Hi Workerbee,
Thank you so much.
I feel that Apple Operating System should seriously look into their user requirements and not leave out such important element in their future version.

Thanks again for your information on Fonts Management.

Jack Png

[JKT]

The issue here isn't that Apple hasn't supplied a solution (it has - the Font Panel, and in 10.3, the Font Book which is in your Applications folder), it is that the software developers haven't opted to use them (because they, the developers, are crap). Whether or not Apple's solutions are any good for the pro's that need control over their multitude of fonts, I'll leave to them to discuss.

[workerbee]

Originally posted by JKT:
Whether or not Apple's solutions are any good for the pro's

They aren't.

[lookmark]

I'd direct your ire toward Macromedia, really --- for neither providing font grouping or taking advantage of OS X's built-in Font Panel (available to both Cocoa and Carbon apps). If you're not going to do the latter, at least do the former (as Adobe does).

Until then, Unsanity's Font Card is probably your best bet (and cheaper than ATR was). If you have any issues with it and Freehand, be sure to E-mail Unsanity about them; they're pretty good about customer response. Good luck.