Re: How to restrcit the font list ?

You might like to look at the way Serif PagePlus manages fonts.
Sure they are all there in the list alphabetically, but ones already in
the document are at the top of the list with a separator.
So if you end up re-using a document (as I do most of the time) all your
favourites are at the top of a full list. Thought for a future feature?

On Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55:10 +0100, romain scheck <scheck.r@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I decided to separate this topic from my previous thread "Zoom, Shortcut
> keys, Icons, Font list" for more clarity and easyness to search
>
> The font list menu is huge. How to restrict it ?
> Walter Blum wrote:
>>
>> Why do you want to restrict it? I love a big list, as
>> long it's alphabetical, and as long as you can specify
>> a font (Like Times New Roman) as your default. I'm not
>> crazy about Ariel, or some of the other fonts that
>> people dote on.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's just faster to choose another font from the list if
>> you don't have to scroll in and it doesn't clutter the
>> whole height of the screen that way.
>>
>>
>> Hey, Romain. Windows has a folder that contains all the
>> fonts used by Word and AbiWord. Go to My Computer, open the
>> Local Disk folder, navigate to Windows, then Fonts and
>> voila! All those damned fonts you didn't want to see. You
>> might want to open a folder of your own containing fonts you
>> want to get rid of. That way they're handy in case you ever
>> want to use them some day. There are a gazillion fonts that
>> are absolutely worthless. Plus, you might someday want to
>> add a font, and that's how to do it.
>
>
> Thanks but I am using GNU/Linux. I can edit abiword.profile also but
> don't know how.
> This is the relevant part:
>
> <Fonts include="0">
> <!--
> Here you can put a list of fonts to limit the fonts that appear
> in the font UI:
>
> <face name="some face"/>
>
> The include attribute of 'Fonts' controls the significance of
> the list:
> include="1" - limit fonts to those listed
> include="0" - exclude the listed fonts from the system font list
> -->
> </Fonts>
>
>
> So, I edited the file AbiWord.Profile like this
>
> <Fonts include="1"> <DejaVu Sans="DejaVu Sans"/>
> </Fonts>
>
> Saved it, restarted AbiWord but it has no effect and AbiWord.Profile is
> overwritten. !!!
> Idea, anyone ?
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