Even More TO.Paint Hints:

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

Even More TO.Paint Hints:


    TO.SuperFonts is great!  Long-time AppleWorks Users in the district can't 
believe that I'm using AppleWorks on a //e to generate my reports and 
letters. 

    Remembering what each font looked like used to be a problem.  I tried 
making print outs, but that was inconvenient and quickly became out-of-date 
whenever I discovered new fonts that I liked, or grew tired of others.  
TO.PickFonts is a big improvement over typing pathnames and reason enough to 
upgrade to AW3, but it still doesn't let you see what the font that you 
select looks like, as modern word processors do, so I was either guessing or 
sticking to a couple of fonts (--boring--).

    TO.Paint to the rescue!  Using the font selector from the TO.Paint menu, 
I print the names of each font I like in their own font, along with the 
number of each different size (also it that font and size).  

    Example:  Monoco12,10,9Monoco
    
    The second listing of the font name (9Monoco) gives me clues to it's 
appearance in the smaller sizes.  
    I use two "font screens" (DoubleHiRes pictures saved in TO.Paint).  The 
second is for symbol fonts that are very rarely used, such as Cairo, 
Cityscape, Symbol, and ZappDingbats.  

    The first screen is more interesting.  I list the most likely to be used 
fonts on the left and middle of the screen.  On the right hand side, I list 
the more colorful fonts (Los Angeles, ShootingStars, SanFrancisco, ...).  
Near the bottom of the screen, I keep two boxes.  The first is a list of 
examples (in their own font again, of course) of monospaced fonts.  These 
come in real handy when printing out tables or ASCII art with superfonts!  
The last box is for nice fonts that use small capital letters for lowercase 
letters.  Nice for reports, but not for printing stories for my young 
students to read.

    Best of all, I can pick my fonts from inside AppleWorks by popping into 
TO.Paint and then TO.PickFonts.  By simply selecting a font in TO.Paint and 
typing it in, it's very easy to update the "font screens" whenever a font is 
added or dropped from favor.
    Give it a try!  It's actually fun and may prompt you to place different 
sizes of the same fonts in their own subdirectories.  It sure is faster to 
use TO.PickFonts that way now!

            Jay Edwards

P.S.  I tried doing the same sort of thing in BeagleWrite, by creating a WP 
page with all of the current fonts.  It takes up more than a screen and takes 
a long, long time to load each of the fonts to complete the WP page.