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- Ken (great name by the way) noticed that you can set the font panel preview text to anything you like. Simply double-click the preview and an edit field opens. These posts on the fonts and the font panel have generated a lot of great feedback and suggestions. Thanks! |
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- The system font panel is a very flexible user interface for selecting and managing collection of fonts. Whenever I demo this to even seasoned Mac OS X users, they are blown away by the flexibility. All Cocoa applications use the font panel implicitly and with the Jaguar release, Carbon applications can add it to their feature set. Here's a series of screen shots that show the flexibility of the panel. |
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- One of the first tasks in designing the font technology foundation of Mac OS X was to ensure that the architecture led to a high performance system and was flexible enough to support a world of varied font formats. ATS, the Apple Type Solution, centrally manages font management and rendering on behalf of the system and applications, resulting in a memory efficient and fast platform for text display. It is very flexible and can support major font formats including (repost): PostScript Type 1 - including double-byte formats used for non-Roman languages Multiple Master - Jaguar supports any instances already defined in the font TrueType - standard Mac resource based TrueType fonts TrueType (Windows) - cross platform font files with the .ttf extension OpenType - improved PostScript format for Unicode fonts System fonts - TrueType fonts packed as . |
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- There are lots of great things to say about Fonts in Mac OS X and Jaguar specifically. I think I'll dedicate this week of posts to everything related to fonts, fonts and more fonts. First up on the font installation front - folders of fonts! Instead of being forced to have all of your font files located directly in your fonts folder, you can now group and organize your fonts in folders. (repost) |
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- A top request we had from UNIX users and people that manage a network of Macs was to increase the size of the "Short Name" for new accounts. This is the name that can be used at the command line for authentication and with Jaguar, it can be up to 255 characters long. (repost) |
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- Folks, I seem to have lost some content on the weblog. I'm not sure what went wrong, but my local Radio content suddenly reverted to an older set. I have copies of all the recent posts and I'll repost over the weekend. |
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